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Etude fonctionnelle des protéines d'enveloppe du virus de l'hépatite B dans l'assemblage et le caractère infectieux des virions HBV et HDV

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Auteur / Autrice : Romain Julithe
Direction : Camille Sureau
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Microbiologie et virologie
Date : Soutenance en 2013
Etablissement(s) : Paris 7

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There are 10 genotypes of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in the world. The HBV and hepatitis delta virus (HDV) envelope proteins have, in the position 146 of the common's domain, a N-Glycosylation site. Only 50% of these proteins are always glycosylated, whatever the genotype. The first part of my project consists in studying the influence of the HBV genetic variability with regard to the envelope protein's activities at different step of the viral circle and with regard to the neutralization's efficiency of anti-HBSAG antibodies. The results show that variations in the aminoacid sequence of the HBV proteins have minor consequences on the assembly/secretion of subviral particles (SVP), HDV virions and the infectivity. However, sequence variations in the epitope of the A-determinant of the antigenic loop (AGL) affect the neutralizing activity of the anti-HBSAG antibodies. The second part of my project consists on determining the function(s) associated with the N146 glycosylation of the envelope proteins. Our results show that N146 glycosylation isn't essential for the HBV SVP and HDV virions production, but important for the assembly/secretion of the HBV virions. This glycosylation is not required for infectivity and hyperglycosylated envelope proteins - by adding several glycosylation sites in the AGL - is compatible with the SVP production and the conservation of the infectivity, in the AGL presents less than 4 glycans. We also show that hyperglycosylation prevents access of the anti-HBSAG Monoconal antibodies to epitope of the A-determinant.