J Lipid Res. 2017 Nov 13. pii: jlr.M079533. doi: 10.1194/jlr.M079533. [Epub ahead of print]
Intracellular hepatitis B virus increases hepatic cholesterol deposition in alcoholic fatty liver via hepatitis B core protein.Wang YQ1, Wu T1, Hu DQ1, Weng XX1, Wang XJ1, Chen PJ2, Luo XP1, Wang HW1, Ning Q3.
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1Tongji Hospital, China.2National Taiwan University, Taiwan.3Tongji Hospital, China; [email protected].
AbstractHepatits B virus (HBV) infection is a prevalent infectious disease with serious outcomes like chronic and acute hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. However, the metabolic alteration by HBV is rarely taken into concerns. With the high prevalence of alcohol consumption and chronic HBV infection, their overlap is assumed as an increasing latent hazard although without exact calculation, moreover, the impact of chronic alcoholic consumption combined with HBV on cholesterol metabolism is unknown. Six-week-old male FVB/Ncrl mice were hydrodynamically injected with a pGEM-4Z-1.3HBV vector and then fed with an ethanol diet for 6 weeks. Serum biomarkers and liver histology, liver cholesterol levels, and cholesterol metabolism-related molecules were measured. In vitro assay with HBx, HBs or HBc protein expression in HepG2 cells and co-stimulated with ethanol was conducted to assess the cholesterol metabolism. HBV expression synergistically increased cholesterol deposition in the setting of alcoholic fatty liver. The increase of intrahepatic cholesterol was succumbed to metabolic alteration in cholesterol metabolism including increased cholesterol synthesis, decreased cholesterol degradation, impaired cholesterol uptake. Ectopic expression of HBV component HBc, but not HBs and HBx, selectively promotes hepatocelluar cholesterol level.
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KEYWORDS: Alcohol liver disease; Cholesterol; Cholesterol/Biosynthesis; Cholesterol/Cell and tissue; Cholesterol/Metabolism; Hepatitis B virus; Liver
PMID:29133292DOI:10.1194/jlr.M079533
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