[PDF][PDF] Serum hepatitis B virus RNA: a new potential biomarker for chronic hepatitis B virus infection

S Liu, B Zhou, JD Valdes, J Sun, H Guo - Hepatology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic hepatitis B infection is one of the major etiological causes of liver failure, cirrhosis,
and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) worldwide. This condition cannot be completely cured …

Novel biomarkers of hepatitis B virus and their use in chronic hepatitis B patient management

A Vachon, C Osiowy - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Even though an approved vaccine for hepatitis B virus (HBV) is available and widely used,
over 257 million individuals worldwide are living with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) who require …

Hepatitis B virus capsid assembly modulators, but not nucleoside analogs, inhibit the production of extracellular pregenomic RNA and spliced RNA variants

AM Lam, S Ren, C Espiritu, M Kelly, V Lau… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) core protein serves multiple essential functions in the viral life
cycle, and antiviral agents that target the core protein are being developed. Capsid …

Biogenesis and molecular characteristics of serum hepatitis B virus RNA

S Shen, Z Xie, D Cai, X Yu, HU Zhang, ES Kim… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
HBV is an enveloped DNA virus that replicates its DNA genome via reverse transcription of a
pregenomic (pg) RNA intermediate in hepatocytes. Interestingly, HBV RNA can be detected …

Extracellular hepatitis B virus RNAs are heterogeneous in length and circulate as capsid-antibody complexes in addition to virions in chronic hepatitis B patients

L Bai, X Zhang, M Kozlowski, W Li, M Wu, J Liu… - Journal of …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Extracellular HBV RNA has been detected in both HBV-replicating cell culture media and
sera from chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients, but its exact origin and composition remain …

Conditional replication and secretion of hepatitis B virus genome uncover the truncated 3′ terminus of encapsidated viral pregenomic RNA

S Shen, W Liu, G Zeng, H Liang, X Yu, H Zhang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) pregenomic RNA (pgRNA) is packaged into capsid where reverse
transcription takes place to synthesize viral DNA genome, and the encapsidated pgRNA is …

Activation of stimulator of interferon genes in hepatocytes suppresses the replication of hepatitis B virus

F Guo, L Tang, S Shu, M Sehgal… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Induction of interferon and proinflammatory cytokines is a hallmark of the infection of many
different viruses. However, hepatitis B virus (HBV) does not elicit a detectable cytokine …

[PDF][PDF] Hepatitis B virus virions produced under nucleos (t) ide analogue treatment are mainly not infectious because of irreversible DNA chain termination

Y Liu, H Liu, Z Hu, Y Ding, XB Pan, J Zou, J Xi… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleos (t) ide analogues (NAs) have been widely used for the treatment of chronic hepatitis
B (CHB). Because viral DNA polymerase lacks proofreading function (3′ exonuclease …

The current status and future directions of hepatitis B antiviral drug discovery

L Tang, Q Zhao, S Wu, J Cheng, J Chang… - Expert opinion on drug …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The current standard care of chronic hepatitis B fails to induce a durable off-
drug control of hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication in the majority of treated patients. The …

Virological basis for the cure of chronic hepatitis B

J Hu, J Cheng, L Tang, Z Hu, Y Luo, Y Li… - ACS infectious …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has infected one-third of world population, and 240 million people
are chronic carriers, to whom a curative therapy is still not available. Similar to other viruses …