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Published on: June 14, 2012
Inhibition of human papillomavirus replication by using artificial zinc-finger nucleases
Takashi Mino1, Tomoaki Mori, Yasuhiro Aoyama
1Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyotodaigaku-Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
Abstract:
Recently, we have designed artificial zinc-finger proteins (AZPs) that prevent a viral replication protein, E2, of human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV-18) from binding to its replication origin and demonstrated that the gene-delivered AZPs inhibited HPV-18 DNA replication in mammalian cells. In the present study, we examined a new approach to inhibition of DNA virus replication by using an AZP-nuclease fusion. In transient replication assays for HPV-18, the gene-delivered AZP-nuclease fusion reduced the viral DNA replication rate significantly. Moreover, it was demonstrated by ligation-mediated PCR that viral DNA regions close to the AZP-binding site were cleaved in the cells by the AZP-nuclease. Thus, our results demonstrate that AZP-nucleases have potentials to inhibit replication of any DNA viruses whose replication mechanisms remain unsolved.
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