HBV quasispecies composition in Lamivudine-failed chronic hepatitis B patients and its influence on virological response to Tenofovir-based rescue therapy
IR@IICB: CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata
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HBV quasispecies composition in Lamivudine-failed chronic hepatitis B patients and its influence on virological response to Tenofovir-based rescue therapy
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Banerjee, Priyanka
Chakraborty, Abhijit Mondal, Rajiv Kumar Khatun, Mousumi Datta, Somenath Das, Kausik Pandit, Pratap Mukherjee,, Souvik Banerjee, Soma Ghosh, Saurabh Chakrabarti, Saikat Chowdhury, Abhijit Datta, Simanti |
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Structural Biology & Bioinformatics
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The present study sought to evaluate the structure of HBV quasispecies in Lamivudine (LMV)-failed chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients and its impact in defining the subsequent virological responses to Tenofovir (TDF)-based rescue-therapy. By analyzing HBV clones encompassing reverse transcriptase (RT) and surface (S) region from LMV-failed and treatment-naïve CHB patients, we identified 5 classical and 12 novel substitutions in HBV/RT and 9 substitutions in immune-epitopes of HBV/S that were significantly associated with LMV failure. In silico analysis showed spatial proximity of some of the newly-identified, mutated RT residues to the RT catalytic centre while most S-substitutions caused alteration in epitope hydrophobicity. TDF administration resulted in virological response in 60% of LMV-failed patients at 24-week but non-response in 40% of patients even after 48-weeks. Significantly high frequencies of 6 S-substitutions and one novel RT-substitution, rtH124N with 6.5-fold-reduced susceptibility to TDF in vitro, were noted at baseline in TDF non-responders than responders. Follow-up studies depicted greater evolutionary drift of HBV quasispecies and significant decline in frequencies of 3 RT and 6 S-substitutions in responder-subgroup after 24-week TDF-therapy while most variants persisted in non-responders. Thus, we identified the HBV-RT/S variants that could potentially predict unfavorable response to LMV/TDF-therapy and impede immune-mediated viral clearance.
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2017-03-17
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Article
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http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/2638/1/Scientific_Reports_%2C2017.pdf
Banerjee, Priyanka and Chakraborty, Abhijit and Mondal, Rajiv Kumar and Khatun, Mousumi and Datta, Somenath and Das, Kausik and Pandit, Pratap and Mukherjee,, Souvik and Banerjee, Soma and Ghosh, Saurabh and Chakrabarti, Saikat and Chowdhury, Abhijit and Datta, Simanti (2017) HBV quasispecies composition in Lamivudine-failed chronic hepatitis B patients and its influence on virological response to Tenofovir-based rescue therapy. Scientific Reports, 7 (44742). 01p.-13p.. |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep44742
http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/2638/ |
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