Hepatitis B virus X protein counteracts high mobility group box 1 protein-mediated epigenetic silencing of covalently closed circular DNA.

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA), serving as the viral persistence form and transcription template of HBV infection, hijacks host histone and non-histone proteins to form a minichromosome and utilizes posttranslational modifications (PTMs) "histone code" for...

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Main Authors: Elena S Kim, Jun Zhou, Hu Zhang, Alexander Marchetti, Maarten van de Klundert, Dawei Cai, Xiaoyang Yu, Bidisha Mitra, Yuanjie Liu, Mu Wang, Ulrike Protzer, Haitao Guo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-06-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010576&type=printable
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