DNA vaccination in combination or not with lamivudine treatment breaks humoral immune tolerance and enhances cccDNA clearance in the duck model of chronic hepatitis B virus infection

The Journal of General Virology
Alexandre ThermetLucyna Cova

Abstract

This study used a duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) model to evaluate whether a novel DNA vaccination protocol alone or associated with antiviral (lamivudine) treatment was able to clear the intrahepatic covalently closed, circular viral DNA (cccDNA) pool responsible for persistence of infection. DHBV carriers received DNA vaccine (on weeks 6, 10, 13, 14, 28 and 35) targeting the large envelope and/or core proteins alone or combined with lamivudine treatment (on weeks 1-8) or lamivudine monotherapy. After 10 months of follow-up, a dramatic decrease in viraemia and liver DHBV cccDNA (below 0.08 cccDNA copies per cell) was observed in 9/30 ducks (30 %) receiving DNA mono- or combination therapy, compared with 0/12 (0 %) from lamivudine monotherapy or the control groups, suggesting a significant antiviral effect of DNA immunization. However, association with the drug did not significantly improve DHBV DNA vaccine efficacy (33 % cccDNA clearance for the combination vs 27 % for DNA monotherapy), probably due to the low antiviral potency of lamivudine in the duck model. Seroconversion to anti-preS was observed in 6/9 (67 %) ducks showing cccDNA clearance, compared with 1/28 (3.6 %) without clearance, suggesting a significant correlation ...Continue Reading

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