Antibody to the host cellular gene-derived epitope GOR-1 in liver transplant recipients with hepatitis C virus infection

Markus Reiser, Norah Terrault, David R. Nelson, Masashi Mizokami, Linda Ferrell, John R. Lake, John P. Roberts, Nancy L. Ascher, Teresa L. Wright, Johnson Y.N. Lau

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Abstract

The presence of anti-GOR was determined in paired pre-orthotopic liver transplantation (pre-OLT) and post-OLT sera from 87 OLT patients with hepatitis C virus infection. Before OLT, 48/87 patients were seropositive for anti-GOR, but this marker had no relationship with the clinical and biochemical parameters, or viremia level. Anti-GOR was less commonly detected in patients infected with genotype 3a, compared with genotypes 1 and 2, which might be related to the less conserved nature of the proposed shared epitope (amino acid sequence 9-18) in genotype 3a isolates. After OLT (median follow- up 16 months), anti-GOR was detected in 31/87 patients and it had no correlation with the clinical and biochemical parameters, viremia level, histologic disease activity, and clinical outcome. Changes in anti-GOR status (before OLT versus after OLT) were also not related to any of the clinical parameters. Although anti-GOR is commonly detected in OLT patients infected with hepatitis C virus genotypes 1 and 2, it has no clinical or prognostic significance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)609-612
Number of pages4
JournalTransplantation
Volume63
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 27 1997

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