Glucagon Treatment Interferes with an Early Step of Duck Hepatitis B Virus Infection
AUTOR(ES)
Hild, Marc
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The effect of glucagon on the establishment of hepadnavirus infection was studied in vitro with the duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) model. The presence of the peptide hormone throughout infection or starting up to 8 h after virus uptake resulted in a dose-dependent reduction in the levels of intra- and extracellular viral gene products and of secreted virions. Treatment with forskolin or dibutyryl-cyclic AMP, two drugs that also stimulate the cyclic AMP (cAMP) signal transduction pathway, resulted in comparable inhibition, suggesting that the inhibitor effect is related to changes in the activity of protein kinase A. In persistently infected hepatocytes, only a slight, but continuous, decrease in viral replication was observed upon prolonged drug treatment. Time course analysis, including detection of DHBV covalently closed circular (ccc) DNA templates, revealed that glucagon acts late during the establishment of infection, at a time when the virus is already internalized, but before detectable ccc DNA accumulation in the nucleus. These data suggest that nuclear import (and reimport) of DHBV DNA genomes from cytosolic capsids is subject to cAMP-mediated regulation by cellular factors responding to changes in the state of the host cell.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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