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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 87, Issue 12, Pages 7176-7184Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03533-12
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- Major State Basic Research Development Program of China [2010CB530101, 2011CB812501]
- Science and Technology Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Government
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Primary Tupaia hepatocytes (PTHs) are susceptible to woolly monkey hepatitis B virus (WMHBV) infection, but the identity of the cellular receptor(s) mediating WMHBV infection of PTHs remains unclear. Recently, sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (NTCP) was identified as a functional receptor for human hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection of primary human and Tupaia hepatocytes. In this study, a synthetic pre-S1 peptide from WMHBV was found to bind specifically to cells expressing Tupaia NTCP (tsNTCP) and it efficiently blocked WMHBV entry into PTHs; silencing of tsNTCP in PTHs significantly inhibited WMHBV infection. Ectopic expression of tsNTCP rendered HepG2 cells susceptible to WMHBV infection. These data demonstrate that tsNTCP is a functional receptor for WMHBV infection of PTHs. The result also indicates that NTCP's orthologs likely act as a common cellular receptor for all known primate hepadnaviruses.
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