Microbiome Biomarkers: One Step Closer in NAFLD Cirrhosis.
Microbiome Biomarkers: One Step Closer in NAFLD Cirrhosis.
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微生物组生物标志物:NAFLD 肝硬化又近了一步。
DOI:
10.1002/hep.31660
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发表时间:
2021
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通讯作者:
Huttenhower,Curtis
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作者:
Simon,TraceyG;Chan,AndrewT;Huttenhower,Curtis
Our study demonstrated that the emergence of serum HBV RNA rtM204I/V mutation was generally delayed compared with that of serum HBV DNA, and both of them would ultimately become nearly 100% mutant forms under continuous NA therapy.(1) Generally, HBV mutations occurred primarily during the reverse transcription of pregenomic RNA (pgRNA) into relaxed circular DNA (rcDNA) due to viral polymerase lacking proofreading activity.(2) The rcDNA carrying rtM204I/V could be secreted in virion to infect new hepatocyte or recycled into nucleus, synthesizing mutant covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) and then transcribing mutant pgRNA. Hence, theoretically, the appearance of mutant HBV RNA and cccDNA lags behind mutant rcDNA until the wild-type cccDNA turnover is completed. Dr. Liao postulated two scenarios that, under NAs therapy, the intrahepatic wild-type pgRNA would be preferentially secreted directly, while the mutant pgRNA is preferentially converted to mutant rcDNA and then released. The first scenario might be based on their publication showing a decrease of extracellular HBV DNA and increase of extracellular HBV RNA in HepAD38 cells following NA treatment.(3) However, such observation has not been reproduced in patients with CHB, whose pgRNA transcription template was different from that in HepAD38 cells. Regarding the latter scenario, it is not known whether the efficiency of mutant pgRNA reverse transcription and subsequent rcDNA virion secretion is superior to mutant pgRNA secretion; thus, the major route