PMID: 7538172Jun 1, 1995Paper

Activation of a heterogeneous hepatitis B (HB) core and e antigen-specific CD4+ T-cell population during seroconversion to anti-HBe and anti-HBs in hepatitis B virus infection

Journal of Virology
M C JungG R Pape

Abstract

Overcoming hepatitis B virus infection essentially depends on the appropriate immune response of the infected host. Among the hepatitis B virus antigens, the core (HBcAg) and e (HBeAg) proteins appear highly immunogenic and induce important lymphocyte effector functions. In order to investigate the importance of HBcAg/HBeAg-specific T lymphocytes in patients with acute and chronic hepatitis B and to identify immunodominant epitopes within the HBcAg/HBeAg, CD4+ T-cell responses to hepatitis B virus-encoded HBcAg and HBcAg/HBeAg-derived peptides were studied in 49 patients with acute and 39 patients with chronic hepatitis B. The results show a frequent antigen-specific CD4+ T-cell activation during acute hepatitis B infection, a rare HBcAg/HBeAg-specific CD4+ T-cell response among HBeAg+ chronic carriers, and no response in patients with anti-HBe+ chronic hepatitis. An increasing CD4+ T-cell response to HBcAg/HBeAg coincides with loss of HBeAg and hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg). Functional analysis of peptide-specific CD4+ T-cell clones revealed a heterogeneous population with respect to lymphokine production. Epitope mapping within the HBcAg/HBeAg peptide defined amino acids (aa) 1 to 25 and aa 61 to 85, irrespective ...Continue Reading

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