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ReviewACS infectious diseases2019

Virological Basis for the Cure of Chronic Hepatitis B.

Jin Hu, Junjun Cheng, Liudi Tang, Zhanying Hu, Yue Luo, Yuhuan Li, Tianlun Zhou, Jinhong Chang, Ju-Tao Guo

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Review in ACS infectious diseases, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
5.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Jin HuBaruch S. Blumberg Institute , 3805 Old Easton Road , Doylestown , Pennsylvania 18902 , United States.
Junjun ChengBaruch S. Blumberg Institute , 3805 Old Easton Road , Doylestown , Pennsylvania 18902 , United States.
Liudi TangMicrobiology and Immunology Graduate Program , Drexel University College of Medicine , 2900 West Queen Lane , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 19129 , United States.
Zhanying HuBaruch S. Blumberg Institute , 3805 Old Easton Road , Doylestown , Pennsylvania 18902 , United States.
Yue LuoBaruch S. Blumberg Institute , 3805 Old Easton Road , Doylestown , Pennsylvania 18902 , United States.
Yuhuan LiInstitute of Medicinal Biotechnology , Chinese Academy of Medical Science , 1 Tian-tan Xi-li , Beijing , 100050 , China.
Tianlun ZhouBaruch S. Blumberg Institute , 3805 Old Easton Road , Doylestown , Pennsylvania 18902 , United States.
Jinhong ChangBaruch S. Blumberg Institute , 3805 Old Easton Road , Doylestown , Pennsylvania 18902 , United States.
Ju-Tao GuoBaruch S. Blumberg Institute , 3805 Old Easton Road , Doylestown , Pennsylvania 18902 , United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5335-2788
Baruch S. Blumberg Institute · USChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNCentral South University · CNDrexel University · US

Funding

Evaulation of therapeutic benefits of HBV nucleocapsid assembly inhibitorsR01AI113267 · NIAID · DREXEL UNIVERSITY · PI DU, YANMING, GUO, JU-TAO · 2014 to 2018
$2.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI113267
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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, persistent HBV infection relies on the virus to exploit host cell functions to support its replication and efficiently evade host innate and adaptive antiviral immunity. Understanding HBV replication and concomitant host cell interactions is thus instrumental for development of therapeutics to disrupt the virus-host interactions critical for its persistence and cure chronic hepatitis B. Although the currently available cell culture systems of HBV infection are refractory to genome-wide high throughput screening of key host cellular factors essential for and/or regulating HBV replication, classic one-gene (or pathway)-at-a-time studies in the last several decades have already revealed many aspects of HBV-host interactions. An overview of the landscape of HBV-hepatocyte interaction indicates that, in addition to more tightly suppressing viral replication by directly targeting viral proteins, disruption of key viral-host cell interactions to eliminate or inactivate the covalently closed circular (ccc) DNA, the most stable HBV replication intermediate that exists as an episomal minichromosome in the nucleus of infected hepatocyte, is essential to achieve a functional cure of chronic hepatitis B. Moreover, therapeutic targeting of integrated HBV DNA and their transcripts may also be required to induce hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) seroclearance and prevent liver carcinogenesis.

Indexed as

Host Microbial InteractionsAnimalsAntiviral AgentsDNA, CircularDNA, ViralHepatitis B, ChronicHepatitis B virusHepatocytesHumansVirus ReplicationAntiviral AgentsDNA, CircularDNA, ViralantiviralcccDNAhepatitis Bhepatitis B virushepatocellular carcinomavirus−host cell interaction

Identifiers

PMID29893548
PMCPMC8026331
OpenAlexW2808018867

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