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(American Journal of Pathology. 2003;163:2441-2449.)
© 2003 American Society for Investigative Pathology

Different Types of Ground Glass Hepatocytes in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection Contain Specific Pre-S Mutants that May Induce Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress

Hui-Ching Wang*, Han-Chieh Wu{dagger}, Chien-Fu Chen{ddagger}, Nelson Fausto§, Huan-Yao Lei and Ih-Jen Su{dagger}

From the Graduate Institutes of Basic Medical Sciences,* Molecular Medicine,{ddagger} and Immunology and Microbiology, National Cheng Kung University College of Medicine, Tainan, Taiwan; the Department of Pathology,§ University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; and the Division of Clinical Research,{dagger} National Health Research Institutes, Tainan, Taiwan

Ground glass hepatocyte (GGH) represents a histological hallmark of chronic hepatitis B virus infection and contains surface antigens in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Several types of GGHs are recognized at different hepatitis B virus replicative stages. The recent identification of pre-S mutants from GGHs encourages us to investigate whether different GGHs may harbor specific mutants and exhibit differential biological activities. In this study, we applied laser capture microdissection to isolate specific GGHs from a total of 50 samples on eight resected liver specimens. The surface genes in two major types of GGHs were analyzed. Type I GGHs expressed an inclusion-like pattern of hepatitis B surface antigens and harbored mutants with deletions over pre-S1 region, whereas type II GGHs, distributed in clusters and emerged at late replicative phase, contained mutants with deletions over pre-S2 region that defines a cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) immune epitope, and may represent an immune escape mutant. Transfection of pre-S mutants in Huh7 revealed decreased syntheses of middle and small S proteins with accumulation of large surface antigen in ER, which in turn led to the activation of ER stress response with differential activities for different mutants. This study therefore demonstrates that different GGHs may contain specific mutants and exhibit differential biological activities.




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