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Deciphering the mystery of hepatitis B virus receptors: A historical perspective

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Hepatitis B virus is one of the major reasons of viral hepatitis with an estimated 350 million infected patients worldwide. Although, the virus was discovered and cloned more than three decades ago, its entry mechanism has still been in investigation. Numerous potential candidates have been proposed and investigated rigorously to reveal HBV entry mechanism and to unveil the first door of viral entry to hepatocytes. This review provides a short account of role of receptors for entry of HBV into hepatocytes. The viral preS1 region of large surface protein is involved in the attachment of HBV to hepatocytes. The putative attachment site of HBV is located at amino acids 21–47 of preS1. So far, several proteins have been proposed to interact with these different regions of the preS1 domain which includes human immunoglobulin A receptor, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, interleukin-6, a 31-kDa protein, HBV binding factor, asialoglycoprotein receptor, nascent polypeptide-associated complex α polypeptide, lipoprotein lipase, hepatocyte-associated heparan sulfate proteoglycans, glucose-regulated protein 75. However, none of them have appeared to be generally accepted as a true receptor for the virus until recently when sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide identified as HBV entry receptor. Current review provides scientific historical perspective of various candidates known to be interacting with preS1 of HBV for their possible role in viral entry.

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Rehman, Z., Fahim, A. & Sadia, H. Deciphering the mystery of hepatitis B virus receptors: A historical perspective. VirusDis. 26, 97–104 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13337-015-0260-1

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