Molecular functions and biological roles of hepatitis B virus x protein

In Silico Prediction and Docking of Tertiary Structure of Multifunctional Protein X of Hepatitis B Virus

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a universal health problem and may result into acute, fulminant, chronic hepatitis liver cirrhosis, or hepatocellular carcinoma. Sequence for protein X of HBV was retrieved from Uniprot database. ProtParam from ExPAsy server was used to investigate the physicochemical properties of the protein. Homology modeling was carried out using Phyre2 server, and refin...

Hepatitis B Virus X Protein and Hepatocarcinogenesis

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is one of the most associated factors in hepatocarcinogenesis. HBV is able to integrate into the host genome and encode the multi-functional hepatitis B virus x protein (HBx). Although the mechanism between HBx and carcinogenesis is still elusive, recent studies have shown that HBx was able to influence various signaling pathways, as well as epigenetic ...

Mutations at Nucleotide 1762, 1764 and 1766 of Hepatitis B Virus X Gene in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B and Hepatitis B-Related Cirrhosis

Abstract       Background and objective: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a DNA virus with high tendency toward hepatic tissue. There are currently about 3 million HBV-infected people and 350 to 400 million chronic carriers of this virus in the world. X protein plays a role in the over-expression of oncogenes, carcinogenicity of liver cells and overlaps with the basal co...

rpb۵-mediating protein suppresses hepatitis b virus (hbv) transcription and replication by counteracting the transcriptional activation of hepatitis b virus x protein in hbv replication mouse model

conclusions our study demonstrated that a low dose of rmp could inhibit hbv transcription and replication, which is dependent on the appearance of hbx in vivo. results rpb5-mediating protein could inhibit hbv transcription and replication in groups transfected with the 1.2 wt and hbx. the inhibitory effect disappeared in the 1.2x (-) groups, yet it reappeared in the groups co-transfected with 1...

Role of hepatitis B virus X protein in liver cancer.