Regulation of hepatitis C virus polyprotein processing by signal peptidase involves structural determinants at the p7 sequence junctions.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Séverine Carrère-KremerJean Dubuisson

Abstract

The hepatitis C virus genome encodes a polyprotein precursor that is co- and post-translationally processed by cellular and viral proteases to yield 10 mature protein products (C, E1, E2, p7, NS2, NS3, NS4A, NS4B, NS5A, and NS5B). Although most cleavages in hepatitis C virus polyprotein precursor proceed to completion during or immediately after translation, the cleavages mediated by a host cell signal peptidase are partial at the E2/p7 and p7/NS2 sites, leading to the production of an E2p7NS2 precursor. The sequences located immediately N-terminally of E2/p7 and p7/NS2 cleavage sites can function as signal peptides. When fused to a reporter protein, the signal peptides of p7 and NS2 were efficiently cleaved. However, when full-length p7 was fused to the reporter protein, partial cleavage was observed, indicating that a sequence located N-terminally of the signal peptide reduces the efficiency of p7/NS2 cleavage. Sequence analyses and mutagenesis studies have also identified structural determinants responsible for the partial cleavage at both the E2/p7 and p7/NS2 sites. Finally, the short distance between the cleavage site of E2/p7 or p7/NS2 and the predicted transmembrane alpha-helix within the P' region might impose additiona...Continue Reading

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