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Hepatitis C virus drives the pathogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma: from immune evasion to carcinogenesis.
Clinical & Translational Immunology 2016 October
Persistent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated with high incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common primary malignancy of the liver with over half a million new cases diagnosed annually worldwide. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ubiquitously expressed transcription factor and its activation by environmental chemicals and by its endogenous ligand kynurenine (Kyn) has been implicated in a variety of tumour-promoting processes such as transformation, tumorigenesis and in immunosuppression that enables tumour survival and growth. Kyn is generated constitutively by human tumour cells via tryptophan (Trp)-2,3-dioxygenase (TDO), a Trp-degrading enzyme expressed in liver, brain and cancer cells. Notably, it has been shown that TDO-derived Kyn suppresses anti-tumour immune responses, thus promoting tumour-cell survival through activation of the AhR pathway. In the context of HCV infection-associated HCC, it was shown that AhR signalling is increased in HCV-infected hepatocytes, and that modifications in the expression of AhR pathway-specific genes are associated with the progression of HCV infection into HCC. Based on these observations, we present and discuss here the hypothesis that HCV infection promotes HCC by modulation of the TDO-Kyn-AhR pathway, resulting in tumorigenesis as well as in suppression of both anti-HCV and anti-tumour immune responses.
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