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J Viral Hepat. 2018 Nov 19. doi: 10.1111/jvh.13044. [Epub ahead of print]
Variants of hepatitis B virus surface antigen observed during therapy with nucleic acid polymer REP 2139-Ca have no influence on treatment outcome and its detection by diagnostic assays.
Mijočević H1, Karimzadeh H1,2, Seebach J1, Usman Z3, Mamun AM4, Bazinet M5, Vaillant A5, Roggendorf M1.
Author information
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Institute of Virology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.
2
Department of Medicine II, University Hospital Munich-Grosshadern, Munich, Germany.
3
Department of Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.
4
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
5
Replicor Inc, Montreal, Canada.
Abstract
The treatment of patients suffering from HBeAg positive chronic hepatitis B with REP 2139-Ca resulted in potent reductions in HBsAg and HBV DNA, seroconversion to anti-HBs and the establishment of functional control of infection. In this cohort of 12 patients, we investigated whether differences between HBsAg sequences might explain lack of response to REP 2139-Ca observed in 3 of 12 patients. We also assessed if the reduction or complete loss of HBsAg in serum observed during therapy were caused by mutations in the "a" determinant preventing the detection of HBsAg by standard diagnostic assays. The complete pre-S/S open reading frame (ORF) was sequenced and pre-S1, pre-S2 and S amino acid sequences were analysed. We found no major differences between pre-S1, pre-S2 and S sequences in responders and non-responders correlated with low reduction of HBsAg. In addition, we found no mutations in the "a" determinant that would significantly affect the reactivity of HBsAg in diagnostic assays. These results demonstrate that the amino acid sequence of complete pre-S/S ORF has no direct influence on response to REP 2139-Ca therapy. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
KEYWORDS:
HBsAg; Mutation; hepatitis B virus; nucleic acid polymer; therapy
PMID:
30450662
DOI:
10.1111/jvh.13044
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