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HCV is a blood-borne virus and people who inject drugs have the highest risk for infection.Early appearance of serum nAbs is associated with spontaneous clearance of acute HCV infection and reinfection in humans. Elucidation of the crystal structure of HCV envelope glycoprotein E2, peptide mapping, and computerized modelling of antibodies against E1E2 heterodimer has led to identification of conserved nAb binding epitopes on E1 and E2. HCV E2 tetrimer decoys can be used to study phenotypes, gene expression patterns, B-cell receptor (BCR) libraries, and function of antigen-specific MBCs in patients who spontaneously resolve acute HCV infection (defectors) or chronic infection after drug injection.