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Intramolecular recombination enables the formation of hepatitis B virus (HBV) cccDNA in mice after HBV genome transfer using recombinant AAV vectors.
Antiviral research - 1 Oct 2021
Ko Chunkyu, Su Jinpeng, Festag Julia, Bester Romina, Kosinska Anna D, Protzer Ulrike
Abstract excerpt
The mouse is not a natural host of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and - despite engraftment of hepatocytes with the HBV receptor - does not support formation of HBV covalently closed circular (ccc) DNA serving as a template for viral transcription and permitting persistent infection. In a recent study, cccDNA formation in mouse hepatocytes has been described following an HBV genome delivery by a recombinant,...
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