Hepatitis B virus cccDNA: Formation, regulation and therapeutic potential

Y Xia, H Guo - Antiviral research, 2020 - Elsevier
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a major public health concern worldwide with
about 257 million individuals chronically infected. Current therapies can effectively control …

Epigenetic modulation in chronic hepatitis B virus infection

M Dandri - Seminars in immunopathology, 2020 - Springer
The human hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a small-enveloped DNA virus causing acute and
chronic hepatitis. Despite the existence of an effective prophylactic vaccine and the strong …

Phage-inducible chromosomal minimalist islands (PICMIs), a novel family of small marine satellites of virulent phages

R Barcia-Cruz, D Goudenège… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Phage satellites are bacterial genetic elements that co-opt phage machinery for their own
dissemination. Here we identify a family of satellites, named Phage-Inducible Chromosomal …

MetaHiC phage-bacteria infection network reveals active cycling phages of the healthy human gut

M Marbouty, A Thierry, GA Millot, R Koszul - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Bacteriophages play important roles in regulating the intestinal human microbiota
composition, dynamics, and homeostasis, and characterizing their bacterial hosts is needed …

G-quadruplexes control hepatitis B virus replication by promoting cccDNA transcription and phase separation in hepatocytes

G Giraud, M Rodà, P Huchon, M Michelet… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Phase separation regulates fundamental processes in gene expression and is mediated by
the local concentration of proteins and nucleic acids, as well as nucleic acid secondary …

Viral remodeling of the 4D nucleome

KD Kim, PM Lieberman - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
The dynamic spatial organization of genomes across time, referred to as the four-
dimensional nucleome (4DN), is a key component of gene regulation and biological fate …

Full-length 5'RACE identifies all major HBV transcripts in HBV-infected hepatocytes and patient serum

B Stadelmayer, A Diederichs, F Chapus, M Rivoire… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) is the episomal form of the
HBV genome that stably resides in the nucleus of infected hepatocytes. cccDNA is the …

A DNA tumor virus globally reprograms host 3D genome architecture to achieve immortal growth

C Wang, X Liu, J Liang, Y Narita, W Ding, D Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) immortalization of resting B lymphocytes (RBLs) to lymphoblastoid
cell lines (LCLs) models human DNA tumor virus oncogenesis. RBL and LCL chromatin …

Transcriptionally inactive hepatitis B virus episome DNA preferentially resides in the vicinity of chromosome 19 in 3D host genome upon infection

D Tang, H Zhao, Y Wu, B Peng, Z Gao, Y Sun, J Duan… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) infects 257 million people worldwide. HBV infection requires
establishment and persistence of covalently closed circular (ccc) DNA, a viral episome, in …

Epstein-Barr virus episome physically interacts with active regions of the host genome in lymphoblastoid cells

L Wang, J Laing, B Yan, H Zhou, L Ke, C Wang… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) episome is known to interact with the three-
dimensional structure of the human genome in infected cells. However, the exact locations …