… , major advances have only recently been made with the development of in vitro systems
that allow reconstitution of some of the individual steps in the replication cycle of DHBV in the …

… to propose a detailed strategy for reverse transcription by hepatitis B viruses that can be …
replication, hepatitis B virus DNA is asymmetric, with the strand complementary to viral RNA (the …

… The hepatitis B virus replication cycle, showing the various particles and genome forms …
The replication cycle begins with non-specific attachment of DNA-containing virions to surface-…

… This review will focus on the various genome transformations that occur during the replication
cycle, with emphasis on the cis-elements on the one hand, and the trans-acting factors …

… To study the replication strategy of the human hepatitis B virus, the 5' end of the RNA … core
protein and the hepatitis B virus reverse transcriptase. The hepatitis B virus DNA minus strand …

… The functional significance of the other HBV gene products that, in cell culture, are not
required for the basic replication cycle is not well understood. The product of the X gene (reviewed …

… Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is an enveloped virus with an internal … ) genome, which is replicated
through reverse transcription of a … Owing to its unique replication strategy, as will be detailed …

… are present during the hepatitis phases (hepatitis B e antigen (… be produced preferentially
by integrated hepatitis B virus (HBV) … Depending on the balance between viral replication and …

… hepatitis B splice protein HBx hepatitis B x protein HBV hepatitis B virus LHB large hepatitis
B … It is the intricacies of this replication strategy that this review will highlight, as well as new …

… chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV), which put them at great risk to develop liver
cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) [1]. Both viral and host … HBV replication cycle …