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ArticleJournal of virology2022

Conserved Lysine Residues of Hepatitis B Virus Core Protein Are Not Required for Covalently Closed Circular DNA Formation.

Xupeng Hong, Jianming Hu

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Article in Journal of virology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xupeng HongDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7091-6108
Jianming HuDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3967-2133
Pennsylvania State University · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Hepadnavirus Assembly and ReplicationR37AI043453 · NIAID · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI Jianming Hu · 2018 to 2026
$3.8M
NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI043453
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) core protein (HBc), the building block of the viral capsid, plays a critical role throughout the HBV life cycle. There are two highly conserved lysine residues, namely, K7 and K96, on HBc, which have been proposed to function at various stages of viral replication, potentially through lysine-specific posttranslational modifications (PTMs). Here, we substituted K7 and K96 with alanine or arginine, which would also block potential PTMs on these two lysine residues, and tested the effects of these substitutions on HBV replication and infection. We found that the two lysine residues were dispensable for all intracellular steps of HBV replication. In particular, all mutants were competent to form the covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) via the intracellular amplification pathway, indicating that K7 and K96, or any PTMs of these residues, were not essential for nucleocapsid uncoating, a prerequisite for cccDNA formation. Furthermore, we found that K7A and K7R mutations did not affect

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Amino Acid SubstitutionConserved SequenceDNA, CircularHepatitis BHepatitis B Core AntigensHepatitis B virusLysineViral Core ProteinsAmino Acid SequenceDNA, ViralHumansMutationNucleocapsidPolyadenylationRNA, ViralVirionDNA, CircularDNA, ViralHepatitis B Core AntigensLysinep22 core protein, hepatitis B virusRNA, ViralViral Core ProteinscapsidcccDNAcorehepatitis B virusinfectionlysinepolyadenylationposttranslational modificationreplicationtranscription

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PMID35867543
PMCPMC9364803
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