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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2013

Dynamics of defective hepatitis C virus clones in reinfected liver grafts in liver transplant recipients: ultradeep sequencing analysis.

Shigeru Ohtsuru, Yoshihide Ueda, Hiroyuki Marusawa, Tadashi Inuzuka, Norihiro Nishijima, Akihiro Nasu, Kazuharu Shimizu, Kaoru Koike, Shinji Uemoto, Tsutomu Chiba

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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10 authors.

Shigeru OhtsuruDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Yoshihide Ueda
Hiroyuki Marusawa
Tadashi Inuzuka
Norihiro Nishijima
Akihiro Nasu
Kazuharu Shimizu
Kaoru Koike
Shinji Uemoto
Tsutomu Chiba

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Abstract

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) reinfects liver allografts in transplant recipients by replicating immediately after transplantation, causing a rapid increase in blood serum HCV RNA levels. We evaluated dynamic changes in the viral genetic complexity after HCV reinfection of the graft liver; we also identified the characteristics of replicating HCV clones using a massively parallel ultradeep sequencing technique to determine the full-genome HCV sequences in the liver and serum specimens of five transplant recipients with genotype 1b HCV infection before and after liver transplantation. The recipients showed extremely high genetic heterogeneity before transplantation, and the HCV population makeup was not significantly different between the liver and blood serum specimens of the individuals. Viral quasispecies complexity in serum was significantly lower after liver transplantation than before it, suggesting that certain HCV clones selectively proliferated after transplantation. Defective HCV clones lacking the structural region of the HCV genome did not increase in number, and full-genome HCV clones selectively increased in number immediately after liver transplantation. A re-increase in the same defective clone existing before transplantation was detected 22 months after transplantation in one patient. Ultradeep sequencing technology revealed that the genetic heterogeneity of HCV was reduced after liver transplantation. Dynamic changes in defective HCV clones after liver transplantation indicate that these clones have important roles in the HCV life cycle.

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Genetic VariationLiver TransplantationTransplantationAgedBloodFemaleGenotypeHepacivirusHepatitis C, ChronicHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansLiverMaleMiddle AgedRNA, ViralRNA, Viral

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PMID23985907
PMCPMC3889746

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