Hepatitis B e antigen induces the expansion of monocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells to dampen T-cell function in chronic hepatitis B virus infection

• Feifei Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Feifei Yang, Xueping Yu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4465-292X

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• Xueping Yu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Feifei Yang, Xueping Yu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1157-2501

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• Chenliang Zhou,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Richeng Mao,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Mengqi Zhu,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Haoxiang Zhu,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Zhenxuan Ma,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Bidisha Mitra,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Gan Zhao,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Yuxian Huang,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Haitao Guo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: haitguo@iupui.edu (HG); bwang3@fudan.edu.cn (BW); jmzhang@fudan.edu.cn (JZ)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7146-916X

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• Bin Wang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: haitguo@iupui.edu (HG); bwang3@fudan.edu.cn (BW); jmzhang@fudan.edu.cn (JZ)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Jiming Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: haitguo@iupui.edu (HG); bwang3@fudan.edu.cn (BW); jmzhang@fudan.edu.cn (JZ)

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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