ArticleVirus genes1994
Hepatitis B virus genome is organized into nucleosomes in the nucleus of the infected cell.
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- The Post-Transcriptional Regulatory Element of Hepatitis B Virus: From Discovery to Therapy.Viruses · 2024Pooled it
- Mapping the Heterogeneity of Histone Modifications on Hepatitis B Virus DNA Using Liver Needle Biopsies Obtained from Chronically Infected Patients.Journal of virology · 2019Trial
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- HBx interacts with the host YBX3 protein and up-regulates its expression to mediate efficient Hepatitis B viral replication.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
- Role of cccDNA in the Quest for HBV Cure- Implications for HIV-HBV Coinfection.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2025Review
- Therapeutic and preventive treatment on outcomes of hepatitis B virus induced chronic liver disease with a cost-effectiveness analysis.World journal of gastrointestinal pharmacology and therapeutics · 2025Review
- Epigenetic drugs against human DNA viruses and retroviruses.Antiviral research · 2025Review
- Structural basis of the hepatitis B virus X protein in complex with DDB1.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Lamin A/C promotes HBV transcription by modulating histone modification associated with cccDNA minichromosome in an HBx-dependent manner.Virology journal · 2025Article
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- The Intrinsically Disordered Region of HBx and Virus-Host Interactions: Uncovering New Therapeutic Approaches for HBV and Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Host 3' flap endonuclease Mus81 plays a critical role in trimming the terminal redundancy of hepatitis B virus relaxed circular DNA during covalently closed circular DNA formation.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
- Epigenetic regulation and its therapeutic potential in hepatitis B virus covalently closed circular DNA.Genes & diseases · 2025Review
- Foxa deficiency restricts hepatitis B virus biosynthesis through epigenic silencing.Journal of virology · 2024Article
- A nucleosome switch primes Hepatitis B Virus infection.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- G-quadruplexes control hepatitis B virus replication by promoting cccDNA transcription and phase separation in hepatocytes.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- The dual-specificity kinase DYRK1A interacts with the Hepatitis B virus genome and regulates the production of viral RNA.PloS one · 2024Article
- The novel mechanism facilitating chronic hepatitis B infection: immunometabolism and epigenetic modification reprogramming.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) nucleoprotein complexes were isolated from nuclei of the human hepatoblastoma cell line HepG2.2.15. Under conditions of physiological ionic strength, the complexes sedimented at a rate corresponding to about 82 S. They contained viral DNA, histone, and nonhistone proteins. For DNA a circular, covalently closed structure was shown both by CsCl gradient centrifugation and electron microscopy. Spread preparations revealed the typical "beads-on-a-string" appearance of nucleosomally organized DNA. The average number of nucleosomes was 18, resulting in a biochemical repeat unit of HBV chromatin of approximately 180 base pairs of DNA. This value was confirmed by experiments analyzing the structure of the HBV chromatin by the use of micrococcal nuclease. Electron microscopy demonstrated that exposure to high ionic strength conditions resulted in removal of nucleosomes from the complexes, but also revealed proteinaceous structures remaining bound to viral DNA molecules. The nature of these residual proteins is discussed. Since native nucleoprotein complexes could be precipitated with HBV-core antibodies, core protein appeared to be one of the nonhistone proteins.
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