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Development of a Hepatitis B Virus Reporter System to Monitor the Early Stages of the Replication Cycle
Published on: February 1, 2017
[Basic core promoter and precore mutations of hepatitis B virus]
Alexandra Ducancelle1, Adeline Pivert1, Françoise Lunel-Fabiani1
1CHU d'Angers, laboratoire de virologie, 4, rue Larrey, 49033 Angers Cedex, France.
Abstract:
Since hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication involves an error-prone reverse transcription step, the rate of nucleotide changes during replication is higher than that found in other DNA viruses. As a result, HBV has a "quasispecies" distribution in infected individuals. Such selection processes to allow the emergence of variant viruses, such as precore (PC) and basal core promoter (BCP) mutants. The dominant PC variant is a point mutation of G to A at nucleotide 1896 (G1896A) that produces a premature stop codon, which terminates translation of the precore protein, resulting in the lack of HBe-antigen synthesis. BCP variants at nucleotides 1762 (A1762T) and 1764 (G1764A) likewise impair the production of HBeAg but at the transcriptional rather than the translational level. The impact of mutations in the precore and basal core promoter regions of the HBV virus on the course of chronic liver disease is not well established.
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