The ORF3 protein of hepatitis E virus interacts with hemopexin by means of its 26 amino acid N-terminal hydrophobic domain II

Biochemistry
Ruchi RatraSunil K Lal

Abstract

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a nonenveloped plus-stranded RNA virus that is a major cause of acute hepatitis in many developing countries. Recent work has shown HEV may be endemic in developed countries also. The 5' two-thirds of the 7.2 kb single-stranded RNA genome of HEV encodes ORF1, and the 3' end encodes the structural proteins ORF2 and ORF3. ORF1 is the nonstructural protein involved in viral RNA synthesis, and ORF2 is the major capsid protein, whereas ORF3 is a very small protein of only 123 amino acids. The precise cellular functions of ORF3 protein remain obscure, although it has been postulated to be a viral regulatory protein. To elucidate the role of ORF3 in viral pathogenesis, the yeast two-hybrid system was used to screen a human liver cDNA library for proteins interacting with ORF3. One of the ORF3-interacting partners thus isolated and identified was hemopexin, a 60 kDa acute-phase plasma glycoprotein with a high binding affinity to heme. The two-hybrid result was validated by in vitro pull-down and co-immunoprecipitation assays and finally by intracellular fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Using a deletion mapping approach, the hydrophobic domain II of ORF3 (spanning amino acids 37 to 62) was found to be r...Continue Reading

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