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- Title
A Simple but Accurate Method for Evaluating Drug-Resistance in Infectious HCVcc System.
- Authors
Li, Jian-Rui; Li, Wen-Jing; Cheng, Jun-Jun; Huang, Meng-Hao; Wu, Zhou-Yi; Jiang, Chen-Chen; Li, Hu; Chen, Jin-Hua; Lv, Xiao-Qin; Dong, Biao; Jiang, Jian-Dong; Peng, Zong-Gen
- Abstract
Use of direct-acting antivirals sometimes causes viral drug resistance, resulting in inefficiency in treated patients in real-world practice. Therefore, how to rapidly and accurately evaluate drug resistance is an urgent problem to be solved for rational use and development of antivirals in the future. Here, we aim to develop a new method by which we can evaluate easily but effectively whether a drug will still be efficient in the future treatment in infectious hepatitis C virus cell culture system. HCV-infected Huh7.5 cells were treated with drugs and the culture supernatants were replaced with fresh culture media containing the same drugs at 24 hours. The supernatants were harvested at 48 hours and incubated with naïve Huh7.5 cells. Intracellular HCV RNAs or proteins in the newly infected cells were extracted and analyzed at 48 hours or longer. Results showed that after being treated with telaprevir mutant viruses were easily detected which were resistant to telaprevir, while after being treated with sofosbuvir drug-resistant viruses did not emerge. In conclusion, the new method is simple and quick but accurate to evaluate whether a drug will be still efficient in the forthcoming therapeutic regimen and whether drug resistance will occur after long-term treatment with drugs.
- Subjects
CELL culture; DRUG resistance in microorganisms; CLINICAL drug trials; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS viruses; VIROLOGY; TELAPREVIR
- Publication
BioMed Research International, 2017, Vol 2017, p1
- ISSN
2314-6133
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2017/1236801