These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Characterization of two hepatitis B virus populations in a single Korean hepatocellular carcinoma patient with an HBeAg-negative serostatus: a novel X-Gene-deleted strain with inverted duplication sequences of upstream enhancer site II.
    Author: Kim H, Jee Y, Mun HS, Park JH, Yoon JH, Kim YJ, Lee HS, Hyun JW, Hwang ES, Cha CY, Kook YH, Kim BJ.
    Journal: Intervirology; 2007; 50(4):273-80. PubMed ID: 17570929.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to elucidate mutation patterns related to hepatocarcinogenesis in a Korean hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patient. METHODS: We analyzed full genome sequences of 6 hepatitis B virus (HBV) clones from an HCC patient. RESULTS: This patient harbored 2 HBV populations with genomes of different lengths (3,221 and 2,212 bp). In addition, we found 2 characteristic features not described so far in the full-genome sequence of deleted strains. First, 3 large deletion events (847, 144 and 48 bp) and a premature termination of the 182th codon of the surface antigen could lead to truncated or possibly nonfunctional forms of all HBV proteins. Second, these showed a novel mutation type not reported to date, which is a complex of an inverted duplication of 36-bp sequences containing an upstream enhancer site II (UEII), a remote insertion, and a large deletion event of the X region by homologous recombination. CONCLUSION: The fact that UEII is a binding site of liver-specific nuclear factor, which is expressed only in highly differentiated liver cells such as cancerous HepG2, strongly suggests a relationship between this novel mutation and hepatocarcinogenesis in this patient.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]