Therapeutic strategies for hepatitis B virus infection: towards a cure

GC Fanning, F Zoulim, J Hou, A Bertoletti - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a common cause of liver disease globally, with a
disproportionately high burden in South-East Asia. Vaccines and nucleoside or nucleotide …

[PDF][PDF] Guidance for design and endpoints of clinical trials in chronic hepatitis B—report from the 2019 EASL‐AASLD HBV Treatment Endpoints Conference

M Cornberg, ASF Lok, NA Terrault, F Zoulim… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Representatives from academia, industry, regulatory agencies, and patient groups
convened in March 2019 with the primary goal of developing agreement on chronic hepatitis …

Covalently closed circular DNA: the ultimate therapeutic target for curing HBV infections

MG Martinez, A Boyd, E Combe, B Testoni… - Journal of hepatology, 2021 - Elsevier
Current antiviral therapies, such as pegylated interferon-α and nucleos (t) ide analogues,
effectively improve the quality of life of patients with chronic hepatitis B. However, they can …

[HTML][HTML] Toward a new era of hepatitis B virus therapeutics: The pursuit of a functional cure

EP Tsounis, E Tourkochristou, A Mouzaki… - World journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, although preventable by vaccination, remains a global
health problem and a major cause of chronic liver disease. Although current treatment …

HBx-induced degradation of Smc5/6 complex impairs homologous recombination-mediated repair of damaged DNA

K Sekiba, M Otsuka, K Funato, Y Miyakawa… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background & Aims HBV causes hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). While it was recently
shown that the ability of HBV X protein (HBx) to impair the Smc5/6 (structural maintenance of …

Hepatitis B: current status of therapy and future therapies

E Spyrou, CI Smith, MG Ghany - Gastroenterology Clinics, 2020 - gastro.theclinics.com
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a substantial global public health problem.
Despite the availability of a protective vaccine for more than 3 decades, the prevalence of …

Current best practice in hepatitis B management and understanding long-term prospects for cure

D Yardeni, KM Chang, MG Ghany - Gastroenterology, 2023 - Elsevier
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major cause of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma
worldwide. Despite an effective vaccine, the prevalence of chronic infection remains high …

Diverse and pivotal roles of neddylation in metabolism and immunity

T Zou, J Zhang - The FEBS Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neddylation is one type of protein post‐translational modification by conjugating a ubiquitin‐
like protein neural precursor cell‐expressed developmentally downregulated protein 8 to …

The hepatitis B virus interactome: a comprehensive overview

E Van Damme, J Vanhove, B Severyn… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Despite the availability of a prophylactic vaccine, chronic hepatitis B (CHB) caused by the
hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major health problem affecting an estimated 292 million people …

Hepatitis B virus–host interactions and novel targets for viral cure

G Ligat, ER Verrier, M Nassal, TF Baumert - Current opinion in virology, 2021 - Elsevier
Chronic infection with HBV is a major cause of advanced liver disease and hepatocellular
carcinoma. Nucleos (t) ide analogues effectively control HBV replication but viral cure is …