Jules Sotty, Pierre Bablon, Bouchra Lekbaby, Jérémy Augustin, Morgane Girier-Dufournier, Lucas Langlois, Céline Dorival, Fabrice Carrat, Stanislas Pol, Hélène Fontaine, Nazim Sarica, Christine Neuveut, Chantal Housset, Dina Kremdsorf, Aurélie Schnuriger, Patrick Soussan
BACKGROUND: Besides the prototypical hepatitis B virus (HBV) infectious particle, which contains a full-length double-stranded DNA (flDNA), additional circulating virus-like particles, which carry pregenomic RNA (pgRNA), spliced1RNA (sp1RNA) or spliced-derived DNA (defDNA) forms have been described. We aimed to determine the level of these four circulating forms in patients and to evaluate their impact on viral lifecycle. METHODS: Chronic HBV untreated patients (n = 162), included in the HEPATHER cohort, were investigated...
August 4, 2022: Hepatology International