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Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is a defective virus and requires hepatitis B virus (HBV) to supply envelope proteins (HBsAg) for maturation and secretion. It is known that two proteins produced by HDV, the small (SDAg) and large (LDAg) antigens, are located in the nucleolus, speckles and the cytoplasm and are involved in genome replication and virion packaging. However, little is known about how they are targeted to the specific sites where they act. A green fluorescence protein fused to LDAg (GFP–LD) has been shown previously to translocate from the nucleolus to SC-35 speckles in the presence of the casein kinase II inhibitor dichlororibofuranosyl benzimidazole. In this study, we determined which amino acids of GFP–LD were responsible for the translocation from the nucleolus to SC-35 speckles and created three GFP–LD derivatives, GFP–LDS2A, GFP–LDS123A and GFP–LDS2/123A. Fluorescence microscopy studies showed that Ser-123 mutants had a high tendency to target SC-35 speckles in both transfected HeLa and HuH-7 cells and suggested that Ser-123, but not Ser-2, plays a role in modulating LDAg translocation to the nucleolus or to SC-35 speckles. This study also demonstrated that HBsAg plays a role in facilitating the transportation of LDAg from the nucleus to cytoplasm. Compared with GFP–LD and GFP–LDS2A, mutants of Ser-123 were less efficiently transported to the cytoplasm and resulted in a lower level of secretion. In contrast, little or no isoprenylation mutant was observed in the cytoplasm of HuH-7 cells expressing HbsAg, suggesting that the isoprenylation of LDAg plays a role in export from the nucleus. Thus, the current study demonstrated that both and elements modulate HDAg translocation to various subcellular sites.

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