Hepatitis B virus biology and life cycle

S Tsukuda, K Watashi - Antiviral research, 2020 - Elsevier
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) specifically infects hepatocytes and causes severe liver diseases.
The HBV life cycle is unique in that the genomic DNA (relaxed-circular partially double …

The functions of hepatitis B virus encoding proteins: viral persistence and liver pathogenesis

F Zhao, X Xie, X Tan, H Yu, M Tian, H Lv, C Qin… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
About 250 million people worldwide are chronically infected with Hepatitis B virus (HBV),
contributing to a large burden on public health. Despite the existence of vaccines and …

HBx-induced HSPA8 stimulates HBV replication and suppresses ferroptosis to support liver cancer progression

Y Wang, M Zhao, L Zhao, Y Geng, G Li, L Chen, J Yu… - Cancer Research, 2023 - AACR
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major driver of hepatocarcinogenesis. Ferroptosis is a
type of iron-mediated cell death that can suppress liver transformation. Previous studies …

A novel lncRNA MCM3AP-AS1 promotes the growth of hepatocellular carcinoma by targeting miR-194-5p/FOXA1 axis

Y Wang, L Yang, T Chen, X Liu, Y Guo, Q Zhu, X Tong… - Molecular cancer, 2019 - Springer
Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common malignant liver tumor with
poor clinical outcomes. Increasing amount of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been …

[PDF][PDF] Longitudinal assessment of three serum biomarkers to detect very early‐stage hepatocellular carcinoma

J Choi, GA Kim, S Han, W Lee, S Chun, YS Lim - Hepatology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We aimed to determine the surveillance performance of alpha‐fetoprotein (AFP), lectin‐
reactive AFP (AFP‐L3), des‐gamma‐carboxy prothrombin (DCP), and their combinations for …

Histone acetyltransferase 1 is a succinyltransferase for histones and non‐histones and promotes tumorigenesis

G Yang, Y Yuan, H Yuan, J Wang, H Yun, Y Geng… - EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
Lysine succinylation (Ksucc) is an evolutionarily conserved and widespread post‐
translational modification. Histone acetyltransferase 1 (HAT1) is a type B histone …

Silencing MYH9 blocks HBx-induced GSK3β ubiquitination and degradation to inhibit tumor stemness in hepatocellular carcinoma

X Lin, A Li, YH Li, RC Luo, YJ Zou, YY Liu… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
MYH9 has dual functions in tumors. However, its role in inducing tumor stemness in
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is not yet determined. Here, we found that MYH9 is an …

IFN-α confers epigenetic regulation of HBV cccDNA minichromosome by modulating GCN5-mediated succinylation of histone H3K79 to clear HBV cccDNA

Y Yuan, H Yuan, G Yang, H Yun, M Zhao, Z Liu… - Clinical …, 2020 - Springer
Background Hepatitis B virus covalently closed circular DNA (HBV cccDNA) is assembled by
histones and non-histones into a chromatin-like cccDNA minichromosome in the nucleus …

Specificity in ubiquitination triggered by virus infection

H Gu, B Jan Fada - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ubiquitination is a prominent posttranslational modification, in which the ubiquitin moiety is
covalently attached to a target protein to influence protein stability, interaction partner and …

Regulation of deubiquitinating enzymes by post-translational modifications

T Das, SC Shin, EJ Song, EEK Kim - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ubiquitination and deubiquitination play a critical role in all aspects of cellular processes,
and the enzymes involved are tightly regulated by multiple factors including posttranslational …