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Influence of the genetic heterogeneity of the ISDR and PePHD regions of hepatitis C virus on the response to interferon therapy in chronic hepatitis C

✍ Scribed by Francesc Puig-Basagoiti; Juan-Carlos Sáiz; Xavier Forns; Sergi Ampurdanès; Mireia Giménez-Barcons; Sandra Franco; Alberto Sánchez-Fueyo; Josep Costa; José-María Sánchez-Tapias; Juan Rodés

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
223 KB
Volume
65
Category
Article
ISSN
0146-6615

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✦ Synopsis

Two genomic regions of hepatitis C virus (HCV), the interferon sensitivity-determining region (ISDR) of the non-structural 5A gene (NS5A) and the protein kinase-RNA activated (PKR)-eukariotic transcription factor (eIF2-alpha) phosphorylation homology domain (PePHD) of the structural E2 gene, interact in vitro with the interferon-inducible cellular PKR protein kinase. Mutations within these regions might, therefore, influence the response to interferon therapy. Viral load at baseline and sequence heterogeneity of HCV in NS5A and E2 regions was studied in 74 HCV-1b and in 12 HCV-3a infected patients with chronic hepatitis C who were treated with interferon. As previously reported by us, in a smaller series of patients in which the ISDR region was analyzed [Saiz et al. (1998) Journal Infectious Diseases 177:839-847], in the present study a low viral load and a high number of amino acid mutations within the ISDR, but not within the PePHD region, were significantly associated with long-term response to interferon among HCV-1b infected patients. No relationship between these viral features and response to therapy was disclosed in patients infected with HCV-3a.

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