For hepatitis B antiviral treatment, there has been no comprehensive method yet. Interferon has poor antiviral efficacy, while nucleoside drugs have long course of treatment and high relapse rate. To improve the anti-HBV curative effect, treatment methods such as thymosin combined with entecavir have become a focus of clinical investigation. To explore potential mechanism of the combination therapy, based on previous studies, this paper explores the relationship between TLR9 expression in PBMCs, secretion of corresponding downstream inflammatory factors and HBV load in anti-HBV treatment with Thymosin a1 (Ta1) combined with entecavir. Chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with PCR method was adopted to detect H3K9 acetylation modification in patients. The relationship between TLR9 expression was explored using RT-QPCR, the relationship between secretion of inflammatory factors, efficacy and TLR9 mRNA expression was determined using Luminex technology. The results showed that during anti-HBV treatment with Ta1 combined with entecavir, histone acetylation increased in patients' PBMCs, acetylated protein H3K9Ac had significant binding with promoter region of the TRL9 gene, thereby increasing the expression of TRL9 mRNA, activating the immune pathway under TRL9 regulation, promoting secretion of inflammation factors IL-6, IL-12, IFN-γ, and TNF-α, boosting the progress of antiviral therapy. H3K9 acetylation modification of TLR9 exists and plays an important role in patients with chronic hepatitis B. During the combination therapy with entecavir and Ta1, histone acetylation modification of TLR9 was significantly improved, which increased the expression of TLR9 at the mRNA and protein levels, and further regulated IL-6, IL-12 and other cytokines.
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