Precise analysis of the effect of basal core promoter/precore mutations on the main phenotype of chronic hepatitis B in mouse models

Autor: Xiao Qin Lv, Qin Xiang, Yang Liu, Yue Wu, Min Cao, Zhong Hua Zhao, Hua Tang Zhang, Yu Wei Tang, Guo Qi Lai
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Medical Virology. 92:3412-3419
ISSN: 1096-9071
0146-6615
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.26025
Popis: High replication and mutation rates of hepatitis B virus (HBV) often lead to reduced or suppressed hepatitis B e antigen expression. The most common mutations are genomic variations in the basal core promoter (BCP) and pre-core (PC) regions. However, the effect of BCP/PC mutations on HBV phenotype in vivo remains unclear. We compared and analyzed BCP/PC mutations and BCP/PC reverse mutations in mouse models. In addition to terminating the expression of HBeAg, BCP/PC mutations also resulted in a significant decrease in HBsAg, HBV DNA, and cccDNA in the early stage, and an obvious increase in serum alanine aminotransferase throughout the transfection period. In both groups, serum HBV DNA was positively correlated with intracellular HBV DNA and cccDNA. Further, we found that interleukin-4 (IL-4) and L-10 levels were significantly lower in the BCP/PC(M) group than in the BCP/PC(R) group at 4 weeks post-injection. However, IL-1β was significantly lower in the BCP/PC(M) group than in the BCP/PC(R) group at 26 weeks post-injection. In summary, we precisely analyzed the effect of BCP/PC mutations on the phenotype in vivo, which is important to evaluating disease progression and treatment responses of variable chronic hepatitis B patients.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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