Avaliação in vitro do efeito da cafeína na inibição do vírus da Hepatite C

• Autor(a) principal: Batista, Mariana Nogueira [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110637
• topic: Virologia; Hepacivirus; Hepatite C; Virus - Aspectos genéticos; Linhagem celular; Agentes antivirais; Cafeína

Hepatitis C is the liver inflammation arising from hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, often evolves to chronic conditions and has been considered the major world cause of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Standard treatment using PEG-IFN and ribavirin is not effective against some HCV genotypes, besides that it has high cost and severe side-effects. Therefore, new treatments have been sought. Caffeine has been found to have beneficial effect in several liver disorders, including the improvement of abnormal liver biochemistry, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Caffeine acts directly by delaying fibrosis, beyond improving the function of liver cellular pathways and interfering with pathways used by the HCV replication cycle. Although, the caffeine showed positive effects for liver disorders and a direct interaction with cell pathways used by HCV, there is no evidence of a direct correlation between caffeine and HCV replication cycle. Thus, the current study proposed to establish the direct relationship between caffeine and different steps of HCV replication cycle. To this study, it was used the subgenomic replicon SGR-JFH-FEO, the full-length replicons FL-J6/JFH-5′C19Rluc2AUbi and JFH-1; and Huh-7.5 cell line. The viral expression was evaluated by Luciferase, Western blotting, Indirect immunofluorescence and qPCR. The caffeine demonstrated to be able to inhibit viral replication on different stages of viral replication, demonstrating an IC50 value of 0.7263 mM and reaching on safe concentrations, HCVcc maximal replication inhibition around 79 %. Caffeine demonstrated also 30 % of inhibition on viral entry on host cells when tested in combination with infectious supernatant. Moreover, this inhibition increased two fold when particles were exposed to caffeine before introduction on cell culture, possibly, indicating an interaction between caffeine and viral proteins. On the other hand, there is no influence of caffeine on viral ...