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模仿干扰素-α(IFNα)对乙型肝炎病毒(HBV)的转录和复制的抑制活性:使用后生(epigenetic)的小分子针对核cccDNA的微小染色体的遗传控制(epigenetic control)
CONTROL ID: 1426150
PRESENTATION TYPE: Oral or Poster
CURRENT CATEGORY: Hepatitis B
CURRENT DESCRIPTORS: I02. Treatment and Clinical Trials
TITLE: Mimicking Interferon-α (IFNα) inhibitory activity on hepatitis B virus (HBV) transcription and replication by targeting the epigenetic control of nuclear cccDNA minichromosome with epigenetic small molecules
AUTHORS (FIRST NAME, LAST NAME): Laura Belloni1, 2, Gianna Aurora Palumbo1, 3, Sergio Valente4, Dante Rotili4, Natalia Pediconi1, 3, Antonello Mai4, Massimo Levrero1, 2
Institutional Author(s):
INSTITUTIONS (ALL): 1. Dept of Internal Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
2. Life Nanosciences Laboratory , Sapienza University , Rome, Italy.
3. EAL Inserm U785 , Sapienza University , Rome, Italy.
4. Dip. di Chimica e Tecnologie del Farmaco , Sapienza University , Rome, Italy.
ABSTRACT BODY: Background: HBV cccDNA, the nuclear replicative intermediate of HBV and template for all viral messenger RNAs, is organized into mini-chromosomes in the nucleus of infected cells by histone and non-histone proteins. By using a cccDNA-specific chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-based assay [that allows to study the impact of viral and cellular proteins on cccDNA mini-chromosome epigenetic modifications, chromatin dynamics, and transcriptional activity], we established that HBV replication is regulated, both in a cell replication system and in the liver of HBV chronically infected patients, by the acetylation status of cccDNA-bound H3/H4 histones. We have also shown that interferon-α (IFNα) inhibits HBV transcription and replication in vitro and in vivo by favoring the long term recruitment to the nuclear cccDNA mini-chromosome of the class III HDAC hSirt1 and of the PRC2 repressive complex, including the transcriptional co-repressors HDAC1 and Ezh2.
Aim: We sought to assess the feasibility to mimic IFNα repressive activity on HBV transcription and replication by targeting the epigenetic control of nuclear cccDNA mini-chromosome with small compounds active on different classes of chromatin modifying enzymes.
Methods: Capsid-associated HBV-DNA (TaqMan real-time PCR), cccDNA (TaqMan real-time PCR) and pgRNA levels (quantitative real-time PCR with specific primers), were assessed in HepG2 cells transfected with full length HBV genomes left untreated and or treated with a) class I/II and class III histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi); b) p300 and PCAF histone acetyltransferases (HAT) inhibitors; c) hSirt1 activators and d) JMJD3 histone demethylase inhibitors.
Results: We confirmed that class I/II HDACi potentiate cccDNA-bound histones acetylation, cccDNA transcription and HBV replication. Conversely, the combined inhibition of p300 and PCAF HATs (compound EML-264) resulted in an evident reduction of HBV replication that mirrored the decrease of pgRNA transcription. The hSirt1/2 activators MC2562 and MC2791, albeit with different efficiency, both inhibited HBV replication and cccDNA transcription. Potentiation of Ezh2 activity through the inhibition of JMJD3 histone demethylase with compound MC3119 resulted in a >50% reduction of pgRNA transcription. Notably, inhibition of hSirt1/2 (MC2344) or Ezh2 (MC2887) strongly induced cell death, thus hampering the evaluation of their effects on viral replication.
Conclusions: Altogether these results represent a proof of concept that activation of hSirt1 and Ezh2 by small molecules can induce an “active epigenetic suppression” of HBV cccDNA minichromosome similar to that observed with IFNα.
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