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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 101, 期 30, 页码 11135-11140出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0403925101
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA084017, CA84017] Funding Source: Medline
Integrated hepadnaviral DNA in livers and tumors of chronic hepatitis B patients has been reported for many years. in this study, we investigated whether hepatitis B virus DNA integration occurs preferentially at sites of cell DNA damage. A single I-Scel homing endonuclease recognition site was introduced into the DNA of the chicken hepatoma cell line LMH by stable DNA transfection, and double-strand breaks were induced by transient expression of I-Scel after transfection of an I-Scel expression vector. Alteration of the target cleavage site by imprecise nonhomologous end joining occurred at a frequency of approximate to10(-3) per transfected cell. When replication of an avian hepadnavirus, duck hepatitis B virus, occurred at the time of double-strand break repair, we observed integration of viral DNA at the site of the break with a frequency of approximate to10(-4) per transfected cell. Integration depended on the production of viral double-stranded linear DNA and the expression of I-Scel, and integrated DNA was stable through at least 17 cell divisions. Integration appeared to occur through nonhomologous end joining between the viral linear DNA ends and the I-Scel-induced break, because small deletions or insertions were observed at the sites of end joining. The results suggest that integration of hepadnaviral DNA in infected livers occurs at sites of DNA damage and may indicate the presence of more widespread genetic changes caused by viral DNA integration itself.
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