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SUBMITTER: Aizawa S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4857398 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aizawa Sayaka S Okamoto Toru T Sugiyama Yukari Y Kouwaki Takahisa T Ito Ayano A Suzuki Tatsuya T Ono Chikako C Fukuhara Takasuke T Yamamoto Masahiro M Okochi Masayasu M Hiraga Nobuhiko N Imamura Michio M Chayama Kazuaki K Suzuki Ryosuke R Shoji Ikuo I Moriishi Kohji K Moriya Kyoji K Koike Kazuhiko K Matsuura Yoshiharu Y
Nature communications 20160504
Signal-peptide peptidase (SPP) is an intramembrane protease that participates in the production of the mature core protein of hepatitis C virus (HCV). Here we show that SPP inhibition reduces the production of infectious HCV particles and pathogenesis. The immature core protein produced in SPP-knockout cells or by treatment with an SPP inhibitor is quickly degraded by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Oral administration of the SPP inhibitor to transgenic mice expressing HCV core protein (CoreTg ...[more]