Spinoculation Enhances HBV Infection in NTCP-Reconstituted Hepatocytes
dc.contributor.author | Yan, Ran | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Yongmei | |
dc.contributor.author | Cai, Dawei | |
dc.contributor.author | Liu, Yuanjie | |
dc.contributor.author | Cuconati, Andrea | |
dc.contributor.author | Guo, Haitao | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Microbiology and Immunology, IU School of Medicine | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-07T18:44:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-07T18:44:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.description.abstract | Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and its sequelae remain a major public health burden, but both HBV basic research and the development of antiviral therapeutics have been hindered by the lack of an efficient in vitro infection system. Recently, sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (NTCP) has been identified as the HBV receptor. We herein report that we established a NTCP-complemented HepG2 cell line (HepG2-NTCP12) that supports HBV infection, albeit at a low infectivity level following the reported infection procedures. In our attempts to optimize the infection conditions, we found that the centrifugation of HepG2-NTCP12 cells during HBV inoculation (termed "spinoculation") significantly enhanced the virus infectivity. Moreover, the infection level gradually increased with accelerated speed of spinoculation up to 1,000g tested. However, the enhancement of HBV infection was not significantly dependent upon the duration of centrifugation. Furthermore, covalently closed circular (ccc) DNA was detected in infected cells under optimized infection condition by conventional Southern blot, suggesting a successful establishment of HBV infection after spinoculation. Finally, the parental HepG2 cells remained uninfected under HBV spinoculation, and HBV entry inhibitors targeting NTCP blocked HBV infection when cells were spinoculated, suggesting the authentic virus entry mechanism is unaltered under centrifugal inoculation. Our data suggest that spinoculation could serve as a standard protocol for enhancing the efficiency of HBV infection in vitro. | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Yan, R., Zhang, Y., Cai, D., Liu, Y., Cuconati, A., & Guo, H. (2015). Spinoculation Enhances HBV Infection in NTCP-Reconstituted Hepatocytes. PLoS ONE, 10(6), e0129889. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129889 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1805/9822 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1371/journal.pone.0129889 | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | PloS One | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution 3.0 United States | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ | |
dc.source | PMC | en_US |
dc.subject | Hepatitis B virus | en_US |
dc.subject | physiology | en_US |
dc.subject | Hepatocytes | en_US |
dc.subject | metabolism | en_US |
dc.subject | virology | en_US |
dc.subject | Organic Anion Transporters, Sodium-Dependent | en_US |
dc.subject | Genetics | en_US |
dc.subject | Symporters | en_US |
dc.title | Spinoculation Enhances HBV Infection in NTCP-Reconstituted Hepatocytes | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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