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ArticleMicrobiology and immunology2025

Generation of Replication-Competent Hepatitis B Virus Harboring Tagged Polymerase for Visualization and Quantification of the Infection.

Chiharu Morita, Masami Wada, Eriko Ohsaki, Shihoko Kimura-Ohba, Keiji Ueda

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Article in Microbiology and immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Chiharu MoritaDivision of Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
Masami WadaDivision of Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
Eriko OhsakiDivision of Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1496-0964
Shihoko Kimura-OhbaDivision of Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
Keiji UedaDivision of Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5641-8105

Funding

This research was supported by Grants from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) Grants (16fk0310504h0005, 17fk0310105h0001, 18fk0310105h0002, 19fk0310105h0003, 20fk0310105h0004, 21fk0310105h005, 22fk0310505h0001, 23fk0310505h0002, and 24fk0310505h003) to K.U. and from JST SPRING, Grant Number JPMJSP2138, to C.M. and from the Osaka University Transdisciplinary Program for Biomedical Entrepreneurship and Innovation (WISE program) to C.M.
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Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a serious global health problem causing acute and chronic hepatitis and related diseases. Approximately, 296 million patients have been chronically infected with the virus, leading to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Although HBV polymerase (HBVpol, pol) plays a pivotal role in HBV replication and must be a definite therapeutic target. The problems are that the detailed functions and intracellular dynamics of HBVpol remain unclear. Here, we constructed two kinds of tagged HBVpol, PA-tagged and HiBiT-tagged pol, and the HBV-producing vectors. Each PA tag and HiBiT tag were inserted into N-terminus of spacer region on HBVpol open reading frame. Transfection of the plasmids into HepG2 cells led to production of HBV. These tagged HBVpol were detectable in HBV replicating cells and pol-HiBiT enabled quantitative analysis. Furthermore, these recombinant HBV were infectious to primary human hepatocytes. Thus, we successfully designed infectious and replication-competent recombinant HBV harboring detectable tagged HBVpol. Such infectious recombinant HBV will provide a novel tool to study HBVpol dynamics and develop new therapeutics against HBV.

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Hepatitis B virusHepatocytesVirus ReplicationDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseDNA, ViralGene Products, polGenetic VectorsHepatitis BHep G2 CellsHumansOpen Reading FramesPlasmidsTransfectionDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseDNA, ViralGene Products, polP protein, Hepatitis B virusHBV polymerasehepatitis B virusrecombinant virusreplication and infection competenttagged HBV polymerase

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PMID39620377
PMCPMC11701411

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