Proteolytic Activation of Influenza Viruses by Serine Proteases TMPRSS2 and HAT from Human Airway Epithelium

作者：Eva Böttcher, Tatyana Matrosovich, Michaela Beyerle, Hans‐Dieter Klenk, Wolfgang Garten, Mikhail Matrosovich · 发表于：Journal of Virology · 年份：2006 · DOI：10.1128/jvi.01118-06 · 被引用次数：517 · 研究领域：Influenza Virus Research Studies、Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis、Respiratory viral infections research

Host cell proteases that cleave the hemagglutinin (HA) of influenza viruses in the human respiratory tract are still not identified. Here we cloned two human type II transmembrane serine proteases with known airway localization, TMPRSS2 and HAT, into mammalian expression vector. Cotransfection of mammalian cells with plasmids encoding HA and either protease resulted in HA cleavage in situ. Transient expression of either protease in MDCK cells enabled multicycle replication of influenza viruses in these cells in the absence of exogenous trypsin. These data suggest that TMPRSS2 and HAT are candidates for proteolytic activation of influenza viruses in vivo.