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ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY
Volume 153, Issue 9, Pages 1677-1684Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-008-0168-9
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- Major State Basic Research (973) Program [2007CB512900]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [30730082]
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Multiple studies have established that GTPase activity is critical for MxA to act against RNA viruses. Recently, it was shown that MxA can also restrict the replication of hepatitis B virus (HBV), a DNA virus, but the requirements for GTPase activity in inhibition of HBV by MxA remain unknown. Here, we report that GTPase-defective mutants (K83A, T103A, and L612K) can downregulate extracellullar HBsAg and HBeAg and reduce the expression of extra- and intracellular HBV DNA in HepG2 cells to levels similar to that achieved by wild-type MxA. Furthermore, TMxA and T103, two nuclear forms of wild-type MxA and a GTPase-defective mutant (T103A) could only slightly decrease the expression of extra- and intracellular HBV DNA in HepG2 cells. In conclusion, GTPase activity is not essential for MxA protein to inhibit HBV replication, and MxA may have only a minimal effect on the replicative cycle of HBV in the nucleus.
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