Hepatitis C Virus Selectively Alters the Intracellular Localization of Desmosterol.
Hepatitis C Virus Selectively Alters the Intracellular Localization of Desmosterol.
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丙型肝炎病毒选择性地改变去莫甾醇的细胞内定位。
DOI：
10.1021/acschembio.6b00324
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
Yang,PriscillaL
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作者：
Villareal,ValerieA;Fu,Dan;Costello,DeirdreA;Xie,XiaoliangSunney;Yang,PriscillaL
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) increases intracellular desmosterol without affecting the steady-state abundance of other sterols, and the antiviral activity of inhibitors of desmosterol synthesis is suppressed by the addition of exogenous desmosterol. These observations suggest a model in which desmosterol has a specific function, direct or indirect, in HCV replication and that HCV alters desmosterol homeostasis to promote viral replication. Here, we use stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy in combination with isotopically labeled sterols to show that HCV causes desmosterol to accumulate in lipid droplets that are closely associated with the viral NS5A protein and that are visually distinct from the broad distribution of desmosterol in mock-infected cells and the more heterogeneous and disperse lipid droplets to which cholesterol traffics. Localization of desmosterol in NS5A-associated lipid droplets suggests that desmosterol may affect HCV replicationviaa direct mechanism. We anticipate that SRS microscopy and similar approaches can provide much needed tools to study the localization of specific lipid moleculesin celluloandin vivo.
