Budget Amount *help |
¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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Research Abstract |
We aimed to verify whether AID/APOBEC family could demethylate covalently-closed-circular DNA (cccDNA) of human Hepatitis B Virus (HBV). As an alternative experimental system, we utilized chicken hepatocyte cell line that stably express duck Hepatitis B Virus (DHBV) gene. The result suggested that APOBEC3G demethylate pre-core region of DHBV cccDNA. We applied the hypothesis to Human Papilloma Viruses (HPVs), that possess circular double-strand DNA. This was supported by the experiment using a HPV16-positive cervical cell line.
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