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Infect Agent Cancer. 2018 Feb 2;13:7. doi: 10.1186/s13027-018-0179-4. eCollection 2018.
Quasispecies variant of pre-S/S gene in HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma with HBs antigen positive and occult infection.Hatazawa Y1, Yano Y1,2, Okada R1, Tanahashi T3, Hayashi H1, Hirano H1, Minami A1, Kawano Y1, Tanaka M4, Fukumoto T4, Murakami Y5, Yoshida M1, Hayashi Y2.
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11Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017 Japan.22Division of Molecular Medicine & Medical Genetics, Department of Pathology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.3Department of Internal Medicine, Tokushima Prefectural Naruto Hospital, Tokushima, Japan.44Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.55Department of Hepatology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
AbstractBackground: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) can develop in patients who are negative for the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in serum but positive for hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA in the liver, referred to as occult HBV infection (OBI). Previous reports showed that HBV variants in OBI-related HCC are different from those in HBsAg-positive HCC. In the present study, HBV quasispecies based on the pre-S/S gene in OBI-related HCC patients were examined by high throughput sequencing and compared with those in HBsAg-positive HCC.
Methods: Nineteen tissue samples (9 OBI-related and 10 HBsAg-positive non-cancerous tissues) were collected at the time of surgery at Kobe University Hospital. The quasispecies with more than 1% variation in the pre-S/S region were isolated and analysed by ultra-deep sequencing.
Results: There were no significant differences in the major HBV populations, which exhibit more than 20% variation within the entire pre-S/S region, between OBI-related HCC and HBsAg-positive HCC. However, the prevalences of major populations with pre-S2 region mutations and of minor populations with polymerized human serum albumin-binding domain mutations were significantly higher in OBI-related HCC than in HBsAg-positive HCC. Moreover, the major variant populations associated with the B-cell epitope, located within the pre-S1 region, and the a determinant domain, located in the S region, were detected frequently in HBsAg-positive HCC. The minor populations of variants harbouring the W4R, L30S, Q118R/Stop, N123D and S124F/P mutations in the pre-S region and the L21F/S and L42F/S mutations in the S region were detected more frequently in OBI-related HCC than in HBsAg-positive HCC.
Conclusions: Ultra-deep sequencing revealed that the B-cell epitope domain in the pre-S1 region and alpha determinant domain in the S region were variable in HBsAg-positive HCC, although the quasispecies associated with the pre-S2 region were highly prevalent in OBI-related HCC.
Trial registration: Ref: R000034382/UMIN000030113; Retrospectively registered 25 November 2017.
KEYWORDS: HBV; HCC; Occult; Pre-S/S; Quasispecies; Ultra-deep sequencing
PMID:29434654PMCID:PMC5797373DOI:10.1186/s13027-018-0179-4
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