Host 3' flap endonuclease Mus81 plays a critical role in trimming the terminal redundancy of hepatitis B virus relaxed circular DNA during covalently closed circular DNA formation.

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) relaxed circular DNA (rcDNA) possesses an 8-9 nucleotide-long terminal redundancy (TR, or r) on the negative (-) strand DNA derived from the reverse transcription of viral pregenomic RNA (pgRNA). It remains unclear whether the TR forms a 5' or 3' flap structure on H...

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Main Authors: Hu Zhang, Quanxin Long, Yuanjie Liu, Alexander L Marchetti, Cheng-Der Liu, Ning Sun, Haitao Guo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-02-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012918
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