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Structural characterization of the BH3-like motif of hepatitis B virus X protein

Hideki Kusunoki1, Toshiyuki Tanaka2, Toshiyuki Kohno3

  • 1Department of Research on Blood and Biological Products, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4-7-1 Gakuen, Musashi-Murayama-shi, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan.

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|June 21, 2014
PubMed

Hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx) is a multifunctional protein, which is considered to be an essential molecule for viral replication and the development of liver diseases. Recently, it has been demonstrated that HBx can directly interact with Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL through a sequence (termed the BH3-like motif) that is related to the BH3 motif of pro-apoptotic BH3-only proteins. Here, we present the first structural characterization of the HBx BH3-like motif by circular dichroism and NMR spectroscopies. Our results demonstrated that the HBx BH3-like motif has the ability to form an α-helix, and the potential helical region involves residues L108-L134. This is a common characteristic among the BH3 peptides of pro-apoptotic BH3-only proteins, implying that HBx may interact with Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL, by forming an α-helix, similar to the interaction mode of other BH3 peptides with Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL.

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BH3 motifCDHBVHBxNMR

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