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Hepatitis B virus [HBV], the best-described hepadnavirus, distributed all around the world and may lead to chronic and acute liver disease, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Despite the advancement in treatment against HBV, an error-prone reverse transcriptase which is require for HBV replication as well as host immune pressure lead to constant evolution and emergence of genotypes, sub-genotypes and mutant viruses; so, HBV will be remained as a major healthcare problem around the world. This review article mainly focuses on the HBV mutations which correlated to occult HBV infection, Immune scape, vaccine failure and eventually liver cirrhosis and HCC. Current study indicated that preS/S region mutations are related to vaccine failure, immune escape, occult HBV infection and the occurrence of HCC. Whereas, P region Mutations may lead to drug resistance to NA antivirals. PreC/C region mutations are associated to HBeAg negativity, immune escape, and persistent hepatitis. Moreover, X region Mutations play an important role in HCC development.
Invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) is the most frequent type of breast cancer (BC) in women, with a high clinical burden due to its high invasive properties. Despite of new data regarding the molecular heterogeneity of invasive cancers is quickly emerging; far less is known about the molecular patterns among cases of IDC. An expanding body of evidence has demonstrated that dysregulation of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) is involved in heterogeneity feature of the BC. In this study, we analyzed the expression levels of two novel lncRNAs LOC100288637 and RP11-48B3 in 51 IDC tissues in comparison with adjacent non-cancerous tissues (ANCTs). And finally, bioinformatic evaluation has been done.The qPCR results showed that LOC100288637 and RP11-48B3 were significantly overexpressed in tumor tissues compared to normal samples (P= 0.0085 and P= 0.0002, respectively). Also, the two lncRNAs were overexpressed in both MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 BC cell lines, nevertheless, with a higher expression pattern in MDA-MB-231 than MCF7 cell line. Furthermore, LOC100288637 had an elevated expression level in HER-2 positive tumors compared to HER-2 negative tumors (P= 0.031). Interestingly, the lncRNA RP11-48B3.4 was upregulated in IDC subjects with age at menarche <14 compared to patients with age at menarche ≥14 (P= 0.041). It was observed in another result that lncRNA RP11-48B3.4 is significantly upregulated in tumors with a lower histological grade compared to tumor samples with higher grades (P= 0.047). And finally, using bioinformatic evaluation, we found a predicted interaction between RP11-48B3.4 and mRNA Zinc Finger and BTB Domain Containing 10 (ZBTB10).Altogether, our findings suggest that these lncRNAs with potential oncogenic roles involved in pathogenesis of IDC with clinical significance, and thus, they may serve as novel markers for diagnosis and treatment of IDC.
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