丙型肝炎病毒核心蛋白与转位蛋白相互作用的研究

目的 本文为了探讨丙型肝炎病毒（HCV）核心蛋白（core)在肝肿瘤中起作用的分子机制,研究核心蛋白是否与肿瘤相关蛋白的相互作用。方法 应用酵母双杂交系统3构建HCV核心蛋白诱饵质粒,转化酵母AH109后与含文库质粒的酵母Y187进行配合,在营养缺陷培养基上进行双杂交筛选。筛选出30个克隆,对既能在四缺营养缺陷培养基上生长（SD／-Trp-Leu-His-Ade),又能在涂有x-α-gal的四缺培养平皿上长出蓝色菌落,提取此酵母克隆的质粒转化大肠杆菌后测序,进行生物信息学分析。发现一个可以引起染色体转位的基因即与肿瘤发生有关的基因转位蛋白基因（Translin)同源。为了进一步证实转位蛋白基因所表达蛋白能与HCV核心蛋白相互作用,网织红细胞裂解物进行体外翻译、蛋白之间的免疫共沉淀。结果 结果显示,转位蛋白不但在酵母双杂交中能与HCV核心蛋白相互作用,而且在体外翻译后也能相互作用。结论 HCV核心蛋白可以和转位蛋白相互作用,推测此蛋白可能在HCV致癌中起一定作用,部分解释了HCV引起肿瘤的发病机制。

Mutual interaction between hepatitis C virus core protein and translin,a recombination hotspot binding protein

OBJECTIVE: To study the role of the core protein of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in HCV pathogenesis and investigate the molecular mechanism of this protein in tumorigenesis. METHODS: By using the yeast two hybrid system 3, the bait plasmids of the gene of the core protein of HCV was constructed and transfected into AH109 yeast strain. Then this transfected AH109 yeast was mated with Y187 yeast containing liver cDNA library plasmids and cultured on quadropledropout (QDO) medium covered with x-alpha-gal and assayed for alpha-gal activity. The blue colonies growing on QOD were collected to extract the plasmids to transform Escherichia coli. Plasmids were extracted from the bacterium and sequenced. After bioinformatic analysis translin, a recombination hotspot binding protein interacting with HCV core protein was found. To further prove the interaction between translin protein and HCV core protein translation was performed by using reticulocyte lysate and immunoprecipitation in vitro. RESULTS: Among the 30 positive colonies, a colony was translin. The interaction between HCV core protein and translin protein could be proved not only in yeast, but also in vitro. CONCLUSION: The core protein of HCV can interact with translin protein, this can explain partly the tumorigenesis of HCV.