ArticleJournal of virology2018
Extracellular Hepatitis B Virus RNAs Are Heterogeneous in Length and Circulate as Capsid-Antibody Complexes in Addition to Virions in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients.
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- Recent Advances in mRNA-Based Vaccines Against Several Hepatitis Viruses.Biological procedures online · 2025Review
- Hepatitis B virus surface antigen drives T cell immunity through non-canonical antigen presentation in mice.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Virological markers for clinical trials in chronic viral hepatitis.JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2024Review
- A molecular standard for circulating HBV RNA detection and quantification assays in patients with chronic hepatitis B.JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2024Article
- Elevated Hepatitis B virus RNA levels in hepatocellular carcinoma patients compared to cirrhotic individuals: A propensity score matched analysis.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association · 2024Article
- NEDD4 family ubiquitin ligase AIP4 interacts with Alix to enable HBV naked capsid egress in an Alix ubiquitination-independent manner.PLoS pathogens · 2024Article
- A nucleosome switch primes Hepatitis B Virus infection.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Catenulopyrizomicins, new anti-Hepatitis B virus compounds, from the rare actinomycete Catenuloplanes sp. MM782L-181F7.The Journal of antibiotics · 2024Article
- The dual-specificity kinase DYRK1A interacts with the Hepatitis B virus genome and regulates the production of viral RNA.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Canocapavir Is a Novel Capsid Assembly Modulator Inducing a Conformational Change of the Linker Region of HBV Core Protein.Viruses · 2023Article
- Hepatitis B Core Antibody Level: A Surrogate Marker for Host Antiviral Immunity in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infections.Viruses · 2023Review
- Sera of Individuals Chronically Infected with Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Contain Diverse RNA Types Produced by HBV Replication or Derived from Integrated HBV DNA.Journal of virology · 2023Article
- Hepatitis B virus serum RNA transcript isoform composition and proportion in chronic hepatitis B patients by nanopore long-read sequencing.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
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 controversial. Here, we demonstrated that extracellular HBV RNA species were of heterogeneous lengths, ranging from the length of pregenomic RNA to a few hundred nucleotides. In cell models, these RNAs were predominantly associated with naked capsids, although virions also harbored a minority of them. Moreover, HBV RNAs in hepatitis B patients' blood circulation were localized in unenveloped capsids in the form of capsid-antibody complexes (CACs) and in virions. Furthermore, we showed that extracellular HBV RNAs could serve as the template for viral DNA synthesis. In conclusion, extracellular HBV RNAs mainly consist of pgRNA or the pgRNA species degraded by the RNase H domain of the polymerase in the process of viral DNA synthesis and circulate as CACs and virions. Their presence in blood circulation of CHB patients may be exploited to develop novel biomarkers for HBV persistence.
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