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New study provides detailed view of how hepatitis B virus establishes chronic infection – EurekAlert

Researchers identified five proteins that are necessary for hepatitis B virus infection, which kills more than 850,000 people worldwide each year and has no cure….

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IMAGE: Human liver cell lines (green, with blue nuclei) infected with HBV express an HBV protein (in red) in this image captured by immunofluorescence microscopy.
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Credit: Image by Stephanie Maya, Princeton University
Researchers at Princeton have determined how five cellular proteins contribute to an essential step in the life cycle of hepatitis B virus (HBV). The article describing these findings appeared March 11, 2021 in the journal Nature Communications.
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