慢性乙型肝炎患者血清HBeAg与HBV-DNA、ADA及ALT浓度的相关性研究

目的探讨慢性乙型肝炎患者血清HBe Ag与HBV-DNA、ADA及ALT浓度的相关性。方法用时间分辨荧光技术定量检测104例慢性乙型肝炎患者HBV血清标志物,用荧光定量聚合酶链反应法检测血清HBV-DNA含量,同时检测ALT、ADA的浓度。结果 HBV-DNA载量在"HBs Ag+HBe Ag+HBc Ab"和"HBs Ag+HBe Ab+HBc Ab"两种HBe Ag相关血清标志物模式中的分布不同(p0.01)。在"HBs Ag+HBe Ag+HBc Ab"组,HBV-DNA的水平及ADA、ALT的浓度显著高于"HBs Ag+HBe Ab+HBc Ab"组(p0.01)。"HBs Ag+HBe Ag+HBc Ab"组,HBe Ag含量与HBV-DNA载量的对数值低度相关(rs=0.3,p0.05),与ADA、ALT浓度不相关(rs均小于0.1,p0.05)。在"HBs Ag+HBe Ab+HBc Ab"组中,HBe Ag含量与HBV-DNA载量的对数值、ADA、ALT浓度不相关(rs均小于0.1,p0.05)。结论在"HBs Ag+HBe Ag+HBc Ab"组,HBV-DNA的水平及ADA、ALT的浓度显著高于"HBs Ag+HBe Ab+HBc Ab"组,但两种e抗原相关血清标志物模式中HBe Ag含量与HBV-DNA载量、ADA、ALT浓度相关性低。     

Breakpoints in the human T-cell antigen receptor alpha-chain locus in two T-cell leukaemia patients with chromosomal translocations

Specific chromosomal translocations have been observed in several human and animal tumours and are believed to be important in tumorigenesis. In many of these translocations the breakpoints lie near cellular homologues of transforming genes, suggesting that tumour development is partly due to the activation of these genes. The best-characterized example of such a translocation occurs in mouse plasmacytoma and human B-cell lymphoma, where c-myc, the cellular homologue of the viral oncogene myc, is brought into close proximity with either the light- or heavy-chain genes of the immunoglobulin loci, resulting in a change in the regulation of the myc gene. T-cell malignancies also have characteristic chromosomal abnormalities, many of which seem to involve the 14q11-14q13 region. This region has recently been found to contain the alpha-chain genes of the human T-cell antigen receptor. Here we determine more precisely the chromosome breakpoints in two patients whose leukaemic T cells contain reciprocal translocations between 11p13 and 14q13. Segregation analysis of somatic cell hybrids demonstrates that in both patients the breakpoints occur between the variable (V) and constant (C) region genes of the T-cell receptor alpha-chain locus, resulting in the translocation of the C-region gene from chromosome 14 to chromosome 11. As the 11p13 locus has been implicated in the development of Wilms' tumour, it is possible that either the Wilms' tumour gene or a yet unidentified gene in this region is involved in tumorigenesis and is altered as a result of its translocation into the T-cell receptor alpha-chain locus.     

Unique cell lines harbouring both Epstein-Barr virus and adult T-cell leukaemia virus, established from leukaemia patients

Members of three distinct classes of animal virus have been associated with naturally occurring neoplasias in man: Epstein--Barr virus (EBV), a DNA virus belonging to herpesvirus group, papillomavirus, and a novel human RNA (retro) virus, human T-cell leukemia virus or adult T-cell leukaemia (ATL) virus. We have established seven continuous cell lines from ATL patients and 0.1-7% of these cells consistently express ATL-specific antigens (ATLA). EBV-associated nuclear antigen (EBNA) is also found in more than 90% of these cells. We have cloned cells from two of these lines and show here that both ATLA and EBNA were present in the same B-cell clone carrying surface immunoglobulin (sIg).