DETECTION BY WESTERN BLOTTING OF AN ANTIBODY TO THE HEPATITIS-C VIRUS E1 ENVELOPE PROTEIN IN SERA OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC LIVER-DISEASE

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HADA, H [1 ]
KOIDE, N [1 ]
HANAFUSA, T [1 ]
SAKAGUCHI, K [1 ]
SHINJI, T [1 ]
SASAKI, S [1 ]
OKA, T [1 ]
TAKAYAMA, N [1 ]
YUMOTO, Y [1 ]
TSUJI, T [1 ]
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[1] OKAYAMA UNIV, RADIOISOTOPE RES CTR, OKAYAMA 700, JAPAN
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HEPATITIS-C VIRUS; ENVELOPE; ANTIBODY; WESTERN BLOTTING;
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R-3 [医学研究方法]; R3 [基础医学];
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We detected an antibody to HCV envelope protein (E1) in sera of patients with HCV-related chronic liver diseases (20 patients with chronic hepatitis and 5 patients with liver cirrhosis) by Western blotting using the fusion protein of El envelope protein and beta-galactosidase as an antigen. The antibody to HCV El (anti-HCV El) was detected in 8 (42 %) of 19 patients positive for HCV-RNA (16 were positive and 3 were negative for antibody to C100-3) and in 1 (17 %) of 6 patients negative for HCV-RNA but positive for antibody to C100-3. HCV-RNA was detected in 8 (89 %) of 9 anti-HCV El positive sera. The value of alanine aminotransferase was significantly higher in patients positive for anti-HCV E1 than in patients negative for the antibody. Although an antibody to the envelope protein of HCV is suspected to be one of the candidates of virus-neutralizing antibodies, our results suggest this hypothesis appears to be unlikely.
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