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The hepatitis B virus polymerase mutation rtV173L is selected during lamivudine therapy and enhances viral replication in vitro.
Journal of virology - 1 Nov 2003
Delaney William E, Yang Huiling, Westland Christopher E, Das Kalyan, Arnold Eddy, Gibbs Craig S, Miller Michael D, Xiong Shelly
Abstract excerpt
Therapy of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection with the polymerase inhibitor lamivudine frequently is associated with the emergence of viral resistance. Genotypic changes in the YMDD motif (reverse transcriptase [rt] mutations rtM204V/I) conferred resistance to lamivudine as well as reducing the in vitro replication efficiency of HBV. A second mutation, rtL180M, was previously reported to partially restore...
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