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Occult hepatitis B virus infection: influence of S protein variants

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Title
Occult hepatitis B virus infection: influence of S protein variants
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Virology Journal, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12985-016-0464-z
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Zhenhua Zhang, Ling Zhang, Yu Dai, Yafei Zhang, Jun Li, Xu Li

Abstract

In occult hepatitis B viral infection (OBI), the persistence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA is associated with a lack of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). To assess the possible role of HBsAg immune escape variants in OBI patients, variability in the HBV S gene was evaluated for OBI patients as well as chronic HBV infection patients from the same families. We selected 17 HBV DNA-positive/HBsAg-negative patients (OBI group) and 15 HBV DNA- and HBsAg-positive patients from OBI families (control group). The S gene was amplified and cloned, and at least 15 clones per patient were sequenced and analyzed. Although the incidence of stop codon mutations within the S region was higher in the OBI group (13.6 %) than in the control group (1.5 %, P < 0.001), this type of mutation, together with insertion and deletion mutations, was prevalent in only three OBI patients. In the major hydrophilic region (MHR), a median of 0.75 residues were altered in every 100 residues for the OBI patients, whereas 0.95 out of 100 residues were changed in the control group (P = 0.428). Furthermore, some variants that are generally considered immune escape variants, such as mutations at positions s145, s147, and s123, were only observed in less than 5 % of all the clones sequenced, in either OBI or control group. Our data suggest that HBsAg variants may not play a major role in OBI pathogenesis.

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Country Count As %
Colombia 1 3%
Unknown 29 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 17%
Student > Master 5 17%
Student > Bachelor 2 7%
Student > Postgraduate 2 7%
Lecturer 1 3%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 12 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 20%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 11 37%
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#15,354,849
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#1,961
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#231,735
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#27
of 43 outputs
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