Transcriptomic analysis of lipid biosynthesis pathways for HBV cure
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ABSTRACT: RNAseq analysis of liver tissue samples from uninfected (n=5) and HBV-infected (n=5) humanized chimeric liver (uPA/SCID) mice was performed to identify potential new host factors and pathways modulated by HBV infection
Project description:Humanized Liver Chimeric Mice (HLCM)-derived human hepatocytes (HLCM-HH) were challenged with HBV or HDV as monoinfection or HBV-HDV coinfection, followed by the extraction of total cellular RNA for the subsequent poly-A based mRNA sequencing analysis.
Project description:We generated human liver chimeric mice that were repopulated with human hepatocytes and we infected them for 11 weeks with Hepatitis B virus (HBV). Hepatocytes were isolated from the infected chimeric mouse livers and their gene expressions were compared with those from uninfected chimeric mice using RNA-sequencing.
Project description:Background and Aims: Unresolved hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection leads to a progressive state of immune exhaustion that impairs resolution of infection, leading to chronic infection (CHB). The immune-competent AAV-HBV mouse is a common HBV preclinical immune competent model, though a comprehensive characterization of the liver immune microenvironment and its translatability to human infection is still lacking. We investigated the intrahepatic immune profile of the AAV-HBV mouse model at a single-cell level and compared with data from CHB patients in immune tolerant (IT) and immune active (IA) clinical stages. Methods: Immune exhaustion was profiled through an iterative subclustering approach for cell-typing analyses of single-cell RNA-sequencing data in CHB donors and compared to the AAV-HBV mouse model 24-weeks post-transduction to assess its translatability. This was validated using an exhaustion flow cytometry panel at 40 weeks post-transduction. Results: Using single-cell RNA-sequencing, CD8 pre-exhausted T-cells with self-renewing capacity (TCF7+), and terminally exhausted CD8 T-cells (TCF7-) were detected in the AAV-HBV model. These terminally exhausted CD8 T-cells (expressing Pdcd1, Tox, Lag3, Tigit) were significantly enriched versus control mice and independently identified through flow cytometry. Importantly, comparison to CHB human data showed a similar exhausted CD8 T-cell population in IT and IA donors, but not in uninfected individuals. Conclusions: Long term high titer AAV-HBV mouse liver transduction led to T-cell exhaustion, as evidenced by expression of classical immune checkpoint markers at mRNA and protein levels. In both IT and IA donors, a similar CD8 exhausted T-cell population was identified, with increased frequency observed in IA donors. These data support the use of the AAV-HBV mouse model to study T-cell exhaustion in HBV infection and the effect of immune-based therapeutic interventions.
Project description:In addition to immunodeficiency, host mice for chimeric mice with highly humanized liver should have hepatic malfunction in order to allow higher replacement rate of human hepatocytes in the liver. Urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) whole gene transfer is often employed to achieve hepatic malfunction in the host mice. We have established uPA cDNA transfer that is far stable, as compared with traditional whole uPA gene transfer. Hepatic gene expression was quite similar between whole uPA gene transfer and uPA cDNA transfer after transplantation of the same lot of human hepatocyte (BD195),, as compared with the variation of gene expression after transplantation of different lots of human hepatocytes to host mice with whole uPA gene transfer.
Project description:Certain organs are capable of containing the replication of various types of viruses. In the liver, infection of Hepatitis B virus (HBV), the etiological factor of Hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), often remains asymptomatic and leads to a chronic carrier state. Here we investigated how hepatocytes contain HBV replication and promote their own survival by orchestrating a translational defense mechanism via the stress-sensitive SUMO-2/3-specific peptidase SENP3. We found that SENP3 expression level decreased in HBV-infected hepatocytes in various models including HepG2-NTCP cell lines and a humanized mouse model. Downregulation of SENP3 reduced HBV replication and boosted host protein translation. We also discovered that IQGAP2, a Ras GTPase-activating-like protein, is a key substrate for SENP3-mediated de-SUMOylation. Downregulation of SENP3 in HBV infected cells facilitated IQGAP2 SUMOylation and degradation, which leads to suppression of HBV gene expression and restoration of global translation of host genes via modulation of AKT phosphorylation. Thus, The SENP3-IQGAP2 de-SUMOylation axis is a host defense mechanism of hepatocytes that restores host protein translation and suppresses HBV gene expression.
Project description:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection could cause hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. HBV-mediated pathogenesis is only partially understood, but X protein (HBx) reportedly possesses oncogenic potential. Exosomes are small membrane vesicles with diverse functions released by various cells including hepatocytes, and HBV harnesses cellular exosome biogenesis and export machineries for virion morphogenesis and secretion. Therefore, HBV infection might cause changes in exosome contents with functional implications for both virus and host. In this project, exosome protein content changes induced by HBV and HBx were quantitatively analyzed by SILAC/LC-MS/MS. Exosomes prepared from SILAC-labeled hepatoma cell line Huh-7 transfected with HBx, wildtype or HBx-null HBV replicon plasmids were analyzed by LC-MS/MS.
Project description:Hepatitis B Virus constitutes a major threat to global public health by infecting hepatocytes, initiating and driving the progress to end-stage liver disease and liver cancer. Curing treatment for HBV infection is yet unavailable, mainly due to unmet gaps in current understanding of HBV-host interaction. Here, multi-omics interrogations were conducted to generate the first landscape of HBV-induced global changes in host transcriptome, translatome and proteome, which identified multiple translatomic events that HBV orchestrated to remodel host proteostasis networks and afford micro-environments essential for HBV proliferation and persistence.
Project description:A large part of liver cancer is caused by hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. In recent years, more and more reports have proved that circular RNAs (circRNAs) has a regulatory effect on the development of cancers, but the role of circRNAs in HBV-positive liver cancer needs to be further studied. In this study, the abnormally expressed circRNAs in two HBV-positive liver cancer cells compared to another two HBV-negative liver cancer cell lines were identified through microarray analysis. This study provides a comprehensively circRNA expression profiling in HBV-positive liver cancer cells, which is meaning for the mechanism study of circRNAs in HBV-related liver cancer.
Project description:We analyzed three clinical parameters with gene expression data from 122 liver tissues. Six healthy samples were used in validation. All hepatitis samples were HBV infected, which was validated by positive HBsAg or serum HBV-DNA. The samples with HCV infection or metabolic liver injury (e.g. fatty liver, chronic alcoholic hepatitis, etc.) were excluded. This dataset is part of the TransQST collection.