Abstract: Although all patients responded to ADV in this clinical study, the serum HBV reduction was lower in the seven patients with the triple mutation (median -3.3 log copies/ml) compared to the patients who had only the
rtL180M/
M204V mutations (median -4.1 log copies/ml) at week 48 (P=0.04, Mann-Whitney test).
Abstract: For ADV and TDF, comparison of wild-type and lamivudine-resistant HBV IC50 (
rtL180M-
M204V) showed, respectively, 2.85-fold (from 0.07 to 0.2 microM) and 3.3-fold (from 0.06 to 0.2 microM) increases, indicating a mild decrease of both drug activities, in vitro.
Abstract: Molecular modeling studies of adefovir diphosphate with the wild type and the mutant HBV
polymerase-DNA complex demonstrated that the increase in adefovir sensitivity toward HBV
polymerase mutants (
rtL180M,
rtM204V/I,
rtL180M-
M204V/I) is a result of increased van der Waals interaction and is supplemented by the decreased affinity of natural substrate toward the mutant HBV
polymerase.