DNA Polymerase alpha is essential for intracellular amplification of hepatitis B virus covalently closed circular DNA

• Liudi Tang,

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

  Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology Graduate Program, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Muhammad Sheraz,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology Graduate Program, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Michael McGrane,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation FlowMetric Diagnostics, Doylestown, PA, United States of America

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• Jinhong Chang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Baruch S. Blumberg Institute, Doylestown, PA, United States of America

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• Ju-Tao Guo

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ju-tao.guo@bblumberg.org

  Affiliation Baruch S. Blumberg Institute, Doylestown, PA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5335-2788

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