Abstract: Using the same commercial immunoassay kit, we found that the single mutants,
K120P and
D123T, were marginally reactive, whereas
W3S-aW1S and the double mutant,
K120P/
D123T, exhibited antigenicity roughly equivalent to the wild-type wako1S.
Introduction: In this study, we cloned the ORFs of three wild-type
HBsAgs, designated
W1S,
W3S and adr4 (all of which were isolated from
HBV-infected patients) and constructed a total of 19 synthetic mutants into a mammalian expression vector.