Amino acid residues at core protein dimer-dimer interface modulate multiple steps of hepatitis B virus replication and HBeAg biogenesis

• Hui Liu,

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Infectious Disease Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Baruch S. Blumberg Institute, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6537-8093

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• Junjun Cheng,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

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

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• Usha Viswanathan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6946-2890

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• Jinhong Chang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6723-494X

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• Fengmin Lu ,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lu.fengmin@hsc.pku.edu.cn (FL); ju-tao.guo@bblumberg.org (J-TG)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Infectious Disease Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

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• Ju-Tao Guo

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lu.fengmin@hsc.pku.edu.cn (FL); ju-tao.guo@bblumberg.org (J-TG)

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

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

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