Hepatocytic expression of human sodium-taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide enables hepatitis B virus infection of macaques

Hepatocytic expression of human sodium-taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide enables hepatitis B virus infection of macaques

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has a limited host range and current animal models can only recapitulate certain aspects of HBV replication. Here, the authors show that expression of the HBV receptor NTCP in macaques supports HBV replication in vivo, suggesting this as animal model for future HBV studies.

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Main Authors: Benjamin J. Burwitz, Jochen M. Wettengel, Martin A. Mück-Häusl, Marc Ringelhan, Chunkyu Ko, Marvin M. Festag, Katherine B. Hammond, Mina Northrup, Benjamin N. Bimber, Thomas Jacob, Jason S. Reed, Reed Norris, Byung Park, Sven Moller-Tank, Knud Esser, Justin M. Greene, Helen L. Wu, Shaheed Abdulhaqq, Gabriela Webb, William F. Sutton, Alex Klug, Tonya Swanson, Alfred W. Legasse, Tania Q. Vu, Aravind Asokan, Nancy L. Haigwood, Ulrike Protzer, Jonah B. Sacha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01953-y

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01953-y

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