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ArticleJournal of virology2005

The transcriptional transactivation function of HBx protein is important for its augmentation role in hepatitis B virus replication.

Hong Tang, Luvsanjav Delgermaa, Feijun Huang, Naoki Oishi, Li Liu, Fang He, Liansan Zhao, Seishi Murakami

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Article in Journal of virology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 92 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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92citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

92 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 0 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Hong TangDepartment of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa University, Takara-machi 13-1, Kanazawa 920-0934, Japan.
Luvsanjav Delgermaa
Feijun Huang
Naoki Oishi
Li Liu
Fang He
Liansan Zhao
Seishi Murakami
Kanazawa University · JPSichuan University · CNWest China Hospital of Sichuan University · CNWest China Medical Center of Sichuan University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role and functional domain of hepatitis B virus (HBV) X protein (HBx) in regulating HBV transcription and replication were investigated with a transient transfection system in the human hepatoma cell line HepG2 using wild-type or HBx-minus HBV genome constructs and a series of deletion or mutation HBx expression plasmids. We show here that HBx has augmentation effects on HBV transcription and replication as a HBV mutant genome with defective X gene led to decreased levels of 3.5-kb HBV RNA and HBV replication intermediates and that these decreases can be restored by either transient ectopic expression of HBx or a stable HBx expression cell line. The C-terminal two-thirds (amino acids [aa] 51 to 154), which contain the transactivation domain, is required for this function of HBx; the N-terminal one-third (aa 1 to 50) is not required. Using the alanine scanning mutagenesis strategy, we demonstrated that the regions between aa 52 to 65 and 88 to 154 are important for the augmentation function of HBx in HBV replication. By the luciferase reporter gene analysis, we found that the transactivation and coactivation activities of HBx coincide well with its augmentation function in HBV transcription and replication. These results suggest that HBx has an important role in stimulating HBV transcription and replication and that the transcriptional transactivation function of HBx may be critical for its augmentation effect on HBV replication.

Indexed as

Transcriptional ActivationTranscription, GeneticAmino Acid SequenceCell Line, TumorHepatitis B virusHumansMolecular Sequence DataMutationProtein Structure, TertiaryTrans-ActivatorsViral Regulatory and Accessory ProteinsVirus Replicationhepatitis B virus X proteinTrans-ActivatorsViral Regulatory and Accessory Proteins

Identifiers

PMID15827169
PMCPMC1082733
OpenAlexW385340443

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