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本帖最后由 StephenW 于 2012-3-23 00:05 编辑
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This is the discussion from the 2006 paper:
Dual effect of APOBEC3G on Hepatitis B virus - Chiemi Noguchi1,2,
- Nobuhiko Hiraga1,2,
- Nami Mori1,2,
- Masataka Tsuge1,2,
- Michio Imamura1,2,
- Shoichi Takahashi1,2,
- Yoshifumi Fujimoto2,3,
- Hidenori Ochi2,3,
- Hiromi Abe1,3,
- Toshiro Maekawa3,
- Hiromi Yatsuji1,4,
- Kotaro Shirakawa5,
- Akifumi Takaori-Kondo5 and
- Kazuaki Chayama1,2,3
"We also demonstrated that the number of hypermutated genomes increased with the expression of APOBEC3G and APOBEC3F (Fig. 8⇑), but not in deaminase-inactive mutants, as demonstrated previously in HIV studies (Shindo et al., 2003; Newman et al., 2005). However, these mutants also reduced the replication of HBV almost to the wild-type level. This suggests that the contribution of hypermutation of HBV to the reduction of virus replication is only minimal and supports the previous report that showed that APOBEC3G reduced the replication of HBV through inhibition of packaging of the pregenome (Turelli et al., 2004a). However, the effect of hypermutation on infectivity of the virus should be investigated further. The effects of APOBEC proteins, including other family members, especially under physiological conditions, should also be examined further. Whether any HBV protein inhibits deamination of the genomic DNA awaits further investigation. Furthermore, the mechanism that enables HBV to cause chronic infection, especially escape from innate antiviral immunity, should also be clarified in order to control chronic HBV infection and reduce HBV-related morbidity."
Where is the evidence that:
The mutants are more efficient in replication and will be selected to replace the wild type?
Interferons activate many genes and produce many proteins. So we need to consider the total effect, rather than just one aspect. Research suggested Interferons influence cccDNA epigenetically too.
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