The hepatitis C virus and immune evasion: non-structural 3/4A transgenic mice are resistant to lethal tumour necrosis factor alpha mediated liver disease

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Lars FrelinMatti Sällberg

Abstract

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) establishes chronic infection by incompletely understood mechanisms. The non-structural (NS) 3/4A protease/helicase has been proposed as a key complex in modulating the infected hepatocyte, although nothing is known about the effects this complex exerts in vivo. To generate mice with stable and transient hepatocyte expression of the HCV NS3/4A proteins to study its effects in vivo. NS3/4A expression was determined by western blot and immunohistochemistry. Two independent pathologists determined the liver histology. Hepatic immunity was characterised by quantifying intrahepatic immune cell subsets. Liver damage was induced using carbon tetrachloride (CCl(4)), lipopolysaccaride (LPS), tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha), and anti-Fas antibody. Expression of NS3/4A was restricted to the cytoplasm of hepatocytes, and did not cause liver cancer or any spontaneous liver pathology. However, the presence of NS3/4A modulated the intrahepatic immunity, as follows: first, the CD4+ T cell and type I/II dendritic cell subsets were reduced in transgenic livers; second, NS3/4A protected hepatocytes from liver damage mediated in vivo by CCl(4), LPS, TNFalpha, but not FAS; and third, both stable and transiently N...Continue Reading

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