Result: It was particularly interested to find that mutants
A1630G and
G1721A always appeared concurrently and that mutant
A1762T constantly accompanied mutant
G1764A.
Result: Of the double mutations
A1630G/
G1721A, the mutation
G1721A does not lead to the alteration of
HBx codon, and thus the double mutations affect only the codon 86 of the
X protein (
H86Y).