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. 1990 May;64(5):1956–1963. doi: 10.1128/jvi.64.5.1956-1963.1990

Immunosuppressive function of hepatitis B antigens in vitro: role of endoribonuclease V as one potential trans inactivator for cytokines in macrophages and human hepatoma cells.

C Jochum 1, R Voth 1, S Rossol 1, K H Meyer zum Büschenfelde 1, G Hess 1, H Will 1, H C Schröder 1, R Steffen 1, W E Müller 1
PMCID: PMC249349  PMID: 2157863

Abstract

The mRNAs of transiently expressed cytokine genes contain AUUUA-rich sequences in the 3' untranslated regions. In order to examine whether the AU-specific endoribonuclease V (EC 3.1.27.8) described previously by us transinactivates those mRNA species, we introduced a 51-nucleotide ATTTA sequence from tumor necrosis factor into the 3' untranslated region of beta-globin gene. Transcripts of that construct, synthesized in vitro, were prone to endoribonuclease V digestion at those AU-rich sequences. Stimulation of human macrophages with lipopolysaccharide resulted in a shift of the association state of the enzyme from the nuclear matrix-associated to the free form. This shift was strongly prevented by the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and more weakly by hepatitis B nucleocapsid antigen and hepatitis B antigen of the X region. HBsAg and, to a lesser extent, hepatitis B nucleocapsid antigen and hepatitis B antigen of the X region inhibited the release of alpha interferon, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor, while it had no effect on interleukin-1 production from stimulated macrophages. Using the human hepatoma cell line PLC/PRF/5, we provide further experimental evidence that endoribonuclease V acts in trans as a posttranscriptional inactivator for nuclear matrix-associated cytokine transcripts. These results suggest that those cytokine transcripts which contain reiterated (overlapping) AUUUA sequences are degraded by nuclear matrix-associated endoribonuclease V. This degradation was comparably high in cells incubated with HBsAg or cells which produced this antigen.

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