Flap endonuclease 1 is involved in cccDNA formation in the hepatitis B virus

• Kouichi Kitamura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan

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• Lusheng Que,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8509-9473

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• Miyuki Shimadu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan

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• Miki Koura,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan

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• Yuuki Ishihara,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan

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• Kousho Wakae,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan

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• Takashi Nakamura,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Radiology and Cancer Biology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1284-0520

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• Koichi Watashi,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takaji Wakita,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masamichi Muramatsu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: muramatsu@nih.go.jp

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan, Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0153-3533

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