Polymorphic differences in SOD-2 may influence HCV viral clearance.

Autor: Houldsworth A; Hepatology and Molecular Medicine Research Groups, Plymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry (PU-PSMD), Plymouth, United Kingdom., Metzner M, Shaw S, Kaminski E, Demaine AG, Cramp ME
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of medical virology [J Med Virol] 2014 Jun; Vol. 86 (6), pp. 941-7. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Mar 07.
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.23923
Abstrakt: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a pathogen causing chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer occurring in about 3% of the world's population. Most individuals infected with HCV develop persistent viremia. Oxidative stress may play an important role in the pathogenesis of a number of diseases including HCV infection and diabetes mellitus. Polymorphisms in the antioxidant genes may determine cellular oxidative stress levels as a primary pathogenic role in HCV and/or in its complications. Patients with HCV and normal, healthy controls were investigated for a superoxide dismutase (SOD-2) polymorphism in the mitochondrial targeting sequence with Ala/Val (C-9T) substitution. Polymorphisms in antioxidant gene SOD-2 were carried out by PCR, restriction fragment length polymorphism assays and by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. For the SOD-2 polymorphism, the RNA positive group showed a higher percentage of "CT" genotype than the RNA negative group (89.3% vs. 66.1%, P = 0.001, χ(2)  = 11.9). The RNA negative group had more TT genotypes than the RNA positive group (27.4% vs. 6.80%, P = 0.01, χ(2)  = 11.6). The exposed uninfected group had an increased frequency of the "CT" genotype (86.2% vs. 66.1%, P = 0.02, χ(2)  = 5.5). The RNA positives had a higher frequency of the "CT" from the normal controls (72.1% vs. 89.2%, P = 0.005, χ(2)  = 7.8).
(© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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