Erschienen in:
03.12.2020 | Editorial
HBx mutations emerged during antiviral therapy: a new face of a multifaceted HBV protein?
verfasst von:
Bin Zhou, Weimeng He, Jinlin Hou
Erschienen in:
Hepatology International
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Ausgabe 6/2020
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Excerpt
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major human pathogen. The HBV genome encodes four overlapping open-reading frames (ORFs) including the S-ORF, C-ORF, P-ORF, and X-ORF. Among them, polymerase which encoded by P-ORF is the target of all approved nucleos(t)ide analogues (NAs) for antiviral therapy. NAs are generally efficient and well tolerated. However, resistance to non-first line antiviral agents is a major issue affecting long-term therapy [
1]. HBx encoded by X-ORF is a nonstructural protein that serves multiple functions during the various stages of chronic HBV infection (CHB) through interaction with a number of host proteins. …