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Analysis of the full-length genome of genotype 4 hepatitis E virus isolates from patients with fulminant or acute self-limited hepatitis E

✍ Scribed by Jun Inoue; Tsutomu Nishizawa; Masaharu Takahashi; Tatsuya Aikawa; Hitoshi Mizuo; Kazuyuki Suzuki; Tooru Shimosegawa; Hiroaki Okamoto

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 237 KB
Volume: 78
Category: Article
ISSN: 0146-6615
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20565

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✦ Synopsis

It was suggested that hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 4 is associated more closely with the severity of hepatitis E than genotype 3, although the virological basis remains unknown. The aim of this study was to examine whether genomic differences among genotype 4 HEVs are responsible for the development of fulminant hepatitis. Full-length sequences of genotype 4 HEVs from three patients with fulminant hepatitis and six patients with acute self-limited hepatitis were determined. The sequences were analyzed with those of 13 genotype 4 HEV isolates whose entire nucleotide sequence is known. Analysis of 22 full-length sequences (fulminant hepatitis, 5; acute hepatitis, 17) revealed that C at nt 1816 and U at nt 3148 (U3148), both of which do not change the amino acid sequences, were significantly associated with fulminant hepatitis (P = 0.0489, respectively). When partial nucleotide sequences containing nt 1816 or nt 3148 were determined in 16 additional HEV isolates of genotype 4, a closer association between U3148 and fulminant hepatitis (P = 0.0018) was observed. The comparison of 86 HEV isolates of all four genotypes showed that U3148 had a stronger association with fulminant hepatitis than other nucleotides at nt 3148 (P = 0.0006). Patients infected with HEV with U3148 had a significantly lower value of the lowest prothrombin activity (P = 0.0293). Nt 3148 is located within the RNA helicase domain, and 22-nt sequence including nt 3148 was well conserved among all genotypes. A silent substitution of U3148 in HEV may be associated with the development of fulminant hepatitis. Further studies are needed to clarify the underlying mechanism.

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