Reduced precore transcription and enhanced core-pregenome transcription of hepatitis B virus DNA after replacement of the precore-core promoter with sequences associated with e antigen-seronegative persistent infections

Virology
K MoriyamaM Mayumi

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus variants harboring nucleotide alterations in the preC-C promoter have been detected in fulminant hepatitis B as well as in HBeAg-seronegative persistent infection. However, it has not been demonstrated that variants with nucleotide alterations in the preC-C promoter cause various disease states. We replaced the preC-C promoter region of a wild-type genome with the most frequent naturally occurring mutated form and introduced it into HepG2 cells. The mutant with coexisting A1762T and G1764A substitutions produced less than one-fifth of the wild-type level of HBeAg. Conversely, the mutant generated 2.4 times more core particle antigen and showed a high-replicator phenotype. RNase protection and quantitative 5' RACE showed a 16- to 32-fold reduction of preC transcripts and a 4-fold induction of C transcripts of the mutant compared to wild-type. The preC transcript of the mutant had a more heterogeneous 5' end than that of the wildtype. However, the mutations did not alter the initiation sites of C transcription. When the promoter region was cloned into CAT plasmids, the mutations had dual effects on preC and C promoter activities, decreasing and increasing them, respectively. These results suggest that these muta...Continue Reading

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