ArticleViruses2024
Preclinical Antiviral and Safety Profiling of the HBV RNA Destabilizer AB-161.
Article in Viruses, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Emerging Trends and Future Directions in the Development of Anti-hepatitis B Therapies: A Horizon Scanning Review.Clinical drug investigation · 2025Pooled it
- Extension of replicative lifespan by synthetic engineered telomerase RNA in patient induced pluripotent stem cells.Nature biomedical engineering · 2025Article
- Meeting report: 38th international conference on antiviral research in Las Vegas, United States of America, March 17-21, 2025.Antiviral research · 2025Article
- Pathogenesis, prevention, and therapeutic advances in hepatitis B, C, and D.Virology journal · 2025Review
- The Evolution of Cell Culture Systems to Study Hepatitis B Virus Pathogenesis and Antiviral Susceptibility.Viruses · 2025Review
- Hepato-selective dihydroquinolizinones active against hepatitis A virus in vitro and in vivo.Antiviral research · 2025Article
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Abstract
HBV RNA destabilizers are a class of small-molecule compounds that target the noncanonical poly(A) RNA polymerases PAPD5 and PAPD7, resulting in HBV RNA degradation and the suppression of viral proteins including the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). AB-161 is a next-generation HBV RNA destabilizer with potent antiviral activity, inhibiting HBsAg expressed from cccDNA and integrated HBV DNA in HBV cell-based models. AB-161 exhibits broad HBV genotype coverage, maintains activity against variants resistant to nucleoside analogs, and shows additive effects on HBV replication when combined with other classes of HBV inhibitors. In AAV-HBV-transduced mice, the dose-dependent reduction of HBsAg correlated with concentrations of AB-161 in the liver reaching above its effective concentration mediating 90% inhibition (EC
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