Permissiveness of human hepatoma cell lines for HCV infection

Virology Journal

Susan L Uprichard¹  Peter Corcoran²  Xuemei Yu³  Naina Barretto²  Bruno Sainz² 

[1] Department of Medicine, Section of Hepatology, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 840 S Wood Street M/C 787, Chicago, IL 60612, USA;Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA;Kadmon Corporation, 450 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA

关键词: Viral permissiveness;    Hepatoma cells;    Hepatitis C virus;   

Others  :  1155155
DOI  :  10.1186/1743-422X-9-30

 received in 2011-11-28, accepted in 2012-01-24,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Although primary and established human hepatoma cell lines have been evaluated for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in vitro, thus far only Huh7 cells have been found to be highly permissive for infectious HCV. Since our understanding of the HCV lifecycle would benefit from the identification of additional permissive cell lines, we assembled a panel of hepatic and non-hepatic cell lines and assessed their ability to support HCV infection. Here we show infection of the human hepatoma cell lines PLC/PRF/5 and Hep3B with cell culture-derived HCV (HCVcc), albeit to lower levels than that achieved in Huh7 cells. To better understand the reduced permissiveness of PLC and Hep3B cells for HCVcc infection, we performed studies to evaluate the ability of each cell line to support specific steps of the viral lifecycle (i.e. entry, replication, egress and spread).

Results

We found that while the early events in HCV infection (i.e. entry plus replication initiation) are cumulatively equivalent or only marginally reduced in PLC and Hep3B cells, later steps of the viral life cycle such as steady-state replication, de novo virus production and/or spread are impaired to different degrees in PLC and Hep3B cultures compared to Huh7 cell cultures. Interestingly, we also observed that interferon stimulated gene (i.e. ISG56) expression was significantly and differentially up-regulated in PLC and Hep3B cells following viral infection.

Conclusions

We conclude that the restrictions observed later during HCV infection in these cell lines could in part be attributed to HCV-induced innate signaling. Nevertheless, the identification of two new cell lines capable of supporting authentic HCVcc infection, even at reduced levels, expands the current repertoire of cell lines amendable for the study of HCV in vitro and should aid in further elucidating HCV biology and the cellular determinants that modulate HCV infection.

【 授权许可】

   
2011 Sainz et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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