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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2010

Inhibition of hepatitis C virus replication by a specific inhibitor of serine-arginine-rich protein kinase.

Yuko Karakama, Naoya Sakamoto, Yasuhiro Itsui, Mina Nakagawa, Megumi Tasaka-Fujita, Yuki Nishimura-Sakurai, Sei Kakinuma, Masaya Oooka, Seishin Azuma, Kiichiro Tsuchiya and 3 more

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yuko KarakamaDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan.
Naoya Sakamoto
Yasuhiro Itsui
Mina Nakagawa
Megumi Tasaka-Fujita
Yuki Nishimura-Sakurai
Sei Kakinuma
Masaya Oooka
Seishin Azuma
Kiichiro Tsuchiya
Hiroshi Onogi
Masatoshi Hagiwara
Mamoru Watanabe
Tokyo Medical and Dental University · JPSoka Municipal Hospital · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Splicing of messenger RNAs is regulated by site-specific binding of members of the serine-arginine-rich (SR) protein family, and SR protein kinases (SRPK) 1 and 2 regulate overall activity of the SR proteins by phosphorylation of their RS domains. We have reported that specifically designed SRPK inhibitors suppressed effectively several DNA and RNA viruses in vitro and in vivo. Here, we show that an SRPK inhibitor, SRPIN340, suppressed in a dose-dependent fashion expression of a hepatitis C virus (HCV) subgenomic replicon and replication of the HCV-JFH1 clone in vitro. The inhibitory effects were not associated with antiproliferative or nonspecific cytotoxic effects on the host cells. Overexpression of SRPK1 or SRPK2 resulted in augmentation of HCV replication, while small interfering RNA (siRNA) knockdown of the SRPKs suppressed HCV replication significantly. Immunocytochemistry showed that SRPKs and the HCV core and NS5A proteins colocalized to some extent in the perinuclear area. Our results demonstrate that SRPKs are host factors essential for HCV replication and that functional inhibitors of these kinases may constitute a new class of antiviral agents against HCV infection.

Indexed as

Antiviral AgentsDrug Resistance, ViralHepacivirusHepatitis C AntigensHumansProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesRepliconRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, Small InterferingViral Core ProteinsViral Nonstructural ProteinsVirus ReplicationAntiviral AgentsHepatitis C AntigensNS-5 protein, hepatitis C virusProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, Small InterferingSRPK1 protein, humanSRPK2 protein, humanViral Core ProteinsViral Nonstructural Proteins

Identifiers

PMID20498328
PMCPMC2916360
OpenAlexW2059382566

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