Enhanced pregenomic RNA levels and lowered precore mRNA transcription efficiency in a genotype A hepatitis B virus genome with C1766T and T1768A mutations obtained from a fulminant hepatitis patient.
PMID: 27473751
2016
The Journal of general virology
Abstract: We recently found four unique mutations [G to A at nucleotide 1742 (G1742A), C1766T, T1768A and T1809C] in the basal core promoter (BCP) region of a genotype A hepatitis B virus (HBV) strain (FH) obtained from a 53-year-old man with fatal fulminant hepatitis.