Hai-Bo Yu, Sheng-Tao Cheng, Fang Ren, Yong Chen, Xiao-Feng Shi, Vincent Kam Wai Wong, Betty Yuen Kwan Law, Ji-Hua Ren, Shan Zhong, Wei-Xian Chen, Hong Mei Xu, Zhen Zhen Zhang, Jie Li Hu, Xue Fei Cai, Yuan Hu, Wen Lu Zhang, Quan-Xin Long, Lin He, Zhong Wen Hu, Hui Jiang, Hong Zhong Zhou, Ai-Long Huang, Juan Chen
Chronic HBV infection is a significant public health burden worldwide. HBV cccDNA organized as a minichromosome in nucleus is responsible for viral persistence and is the key obstacle for a cure of chronic hepatitis B. Recent studies suggest cccDNA transcription is epigenetically regulated by histone modifications, especially histone acetylation and methylation. In this study, we identified transcriptionally active histone succinylation (H3K122succ) as a new histone modification on cccDNA minichromosome by using cccDNA ChIP-Seq approach...
June 15, 2021: Clinical Science (1979-)