Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17301141›Full record

ArticleJournal of virology2007

Participation of rab5, an early endosome protein, in hepatitis C virus RNA replication machinery.

Michelle Stone, Shuaizheng Jia, Won Do Heo, Tobias Meyer, Kouacou V Konan

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Article in Journal of virology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.

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70citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

70 citing papers in PubMed, 118 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Virus infection and vesicle trafficking.Frontiers in immunology · 2025
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  3. A genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen identifies a role for Rab5A and early endosomes in hepatitis E virus replication.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  4. The Implication of Sphingolipids in Viral Infections.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  9. HCV Assembly and Egress via Modifications in Host Lipid Metabolic Systems.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2021
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  15. Relevance of Rab Proteins for the Life Cycle of Hepatitis C Virus.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michelle StoneDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, 308 Althouse Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Shuaizheng Jia
Won Do Heo
Tobias Meyer
Kouacou V Konan
Pennsylvania State University · USStanford University · US

Funding

REGULATION OF CA++/CALMODULIN KINASE BY NEUROTRANSMITTERR01GM030179 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI MEYER, TOBIAS · 1985 to 2018
$4.9M
HCV Nonstructural Proteins and Host Protein SecretionK01CA095086 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI KONAN, KOUACOU V. · 2002 to 2006
$727k
Medical Research Council G0400802NCI NIH HHS K01 CA095086NCI NIH HHS K01 CA 95086-04NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM030179
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Like most positive-strand RNA viruses, hepatitis C virus (HCV) is believed to replicate its genome on the surface of rearranged membranes. We have shown previously that HCV NS4AB, but not the product NS4B, inhibits endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-to-Golgi protein traffic (K. V. Konan, T. H. Giddings, Jr., M. Ikeda, K. Li, S. M. Lemon, and K. Kirkegaard, J. Virol. 77:7843-7855). However, both NS4AB and NS4B can induce "membranous web" formation, first reported by Egger et al. (D. B Egger, R. Gosert, L. Bianchi, H. E. Blum, D. Moradpour, and K. Bienz, J. Virol. 76:5974-5984), which is also observed in HCV-infected cells (Y. Rouille, F. Helle, D. Delgrange, P. Roingeard, C. Voisset, E. Blanchard, S. Belouzard, J. McKeating, A. H. Patel, G. Maertens, T. Wakita, C. Wychowski, and J. Dubuisson, J. Virol. 80:2832-2841) and cells that bear a subgenomic NS5A-green fluorescent protein (GFP) replicon (D. Moradpour, M. J. Evans, R. Gosert, Z. Yuan, H. E. Blum, S. P. Goff, B. D. Lindenbach, and C. M. Rice, J. Virol. 78:7400-7409). To determine the intracellular origin of the web, we examined NS4B colocalization with endogenous cellular markers in the context of the full-length or subgenomic replicon. We found that, in addition to ER markers, early endosome (EE) proteins, including Rab5, were associated with web-inducing protein NS4B. Furthermore, an immunoisolated fraction containing NS4B was found to contain both ER and EE proteins. Using fluorescence microscopy, we showed that wild-type and constitutively active Rab5 proteins were associated with NS4B. Interestingly, expression of dominant-negative Rab5 resulted in significant loss of GFP fluorescence in NS5A-GFP replicon cells. We also found that a small reduction in Rab5 protein expression decreased HCV RNA synthesis significantly. Furthermore, transfection of labeled Rab5 small interfering RNAs into NS5A-GFP replicon cells resulted in a significant decrease in GFP fluorescence. Finally, Rab5 protein was found to coimmunoprecipitate with HCV NS4B. These studies suggest that EE proteins, including Rab5, may play a role in HCV genome replication or web formation.

Indexed as

Blotting, NorthernCell Line, TumorFluorescent Antibody Technique, IndirectGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHepacivirusHumansImmunoprecipitationPolymerase Chain Reactionrab5 GTP-Binding ProteinsRNARNA, Small InterferingViral Nonstructural ProteinsVirus ReplicationGreen Fluorescent Proteinsrab5 GTP-Binding ProteinsRNARNA, Small InterferingViral Nonstructural Proteins

Identifiers

PMID17301141
PMCPMC1900164
OpenAlexW2096820648

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