1. NTCP-Reconstituted In Vitro HBV Infection System Yinyan Sun, Yonghe Qi, Bo Peng, and Wenhui Li
2. Hepatitis B Virus Infection of HepaRG Cells, HepaRG-hNTCP Cells and Primary Human Hepatocytes Yi Ni and Stephan Urban
3. Live Cell Imaging Confocal Microscopy Analysis of HBV Myr-PreS1 Peptide Binding and Uptake in NTCP-GFP Expressing HepG2 Cells Alexander König and Dieter Glebe
4. Intracytoplasmic Transport of Hepatitis B Virus Capsids Quentin Osseman and Michael Kann
5. A Homokaryon Assay for Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling Activity of HBV Core Protein Ching-Chun Yang, Hung-Cheng Li, and Chiaho Shih
6. Analyses of HBV cccDNA Quantification and Modification Yuchen Xia, Daniela Stadler, Chunkyu Ko, and Ulrike Protzer
7. Detection of HBV cccDNA Methylation from Clinical Samples by Bisulfite Sequencing and Methylation Specific PCR Yongmei Zhang, Richeng Mao, Haitao Guo, and Jiming Zhang
8. A T7 Endonuclease I Assay to Detect TALEN-Mediated Mutation of HBV cccDNA Kristie Bloom, Abdullah Ely, and Patrick Arbuthnot
9. Detection of Hepatocyte Clones Containing Integrated Hepatitis B Virus DNA using Inverse Nested PCR Thomas Tu and Allison R. Jilbert
10. Highly Sensitive Detection of HBV RNA in Liver Tissue by In Situ Hybridization Diego Calabrese and Stefan F. Wieland
11. Immunofluorescent Staining for the Detection of the Hepatitis B Core Antigen in Frozen Liver Sections of Human Liver Chimeric Mice Lena Allweiss, Marc Lütgehetmann, and Maura Dandri
12. Measuring Changes in Cytosolic Calcium Levels in HBV- and HBx-Expressing Cultured Primary Hepatocytes Jessica C. Casciano and Michael J. Bouchard
13. In Vitro Assays for RNA Binding and Protein Priming of Hepatitis B Virus Polymerase Daniel N. Clark, Scott A. Jones, and Jianming Hu
14. In Vitro Enzymatic and Cell Culture-Based Assays for Measuring Activity of HBV RNaseH Inhibitors Elena Lomonosova and John E. Tavis<
15. Detection of Hepatitis B Virus Particles Released from Cultured Cells by Particle Gel Assay Ran Yan, Dawei Cai, Yuanjie Liu, and Haitao Guo
16. Microtiter-Format Assays for HBV Antigen Quantitation in Non-Clinical Applications Cally Goddard, Lale-Bildrici Ertekin, Xiahoe Wang, and Andrea Cuconati
17. Deep Sequencing of the Hepatitis B Virus Genome: Analysis of Multiple Samples by Implementation of the Illumina Platform Quan-Xin Long, Jie-Li Hu, and Ai-Long Huang
18. Generation of Replication Competent Hepatitis B Virus Genome from Blood Samples for Functional Characterization Yanli Qin, Yong-Xiang Wang, Jiming Zhang, Jisu Li, and Shuping Tong
19. Hydrodynamic HBV Transfection Mouse Model Li-Ling Wu, Hurng-Yi Wang, and Pei-Jer Chen
20. An ELISPOT-Based Assay to Measure HBV-Specific CD8+ T Cell Responses in Immunocompetent Mice Tracy D. Reynolds, Safiehkhatoon Moshkani, and Michael D. Robek
21. Advanced Method for Isolation of Mouse Hepatocytes, Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells and Kupffer Cells Jia Liu, Xuan Huang, Melanie Werner, Ruth Broering, Dongliang Yang, and Mengji Lu
22. Partial Hepatectomy and Castration of HBV Transgenic Mice Yongjun Tian and Jing-hsiung James Ou
23. Studying HBV Infection and Therapy in Immune Deficient NOD-Rag1-/-IL2RgammaC-null (NRG) Fumarylacetoacetate Hydrolase (Fah) Knockout Mice Transplanted with Human Hepatocytes Feng Li, Kouki Nio, Fumihiko Yasui, Christopher M. Murphy, and Lishan Su
24. Measurement of Antiviral Effect and Innate Immune Response during Treatment of Primary Woodchuck Hepatocytes Marta G. Murreddu, Manasa Suresh, Severin O. Gudima, and Stephan Menne
This volume serves as a reference for the dissemination of advances made in the study of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV). Hepatitis B Virus: Methods and Protocols details protocols and techniques ranging from cell culture studies to in vivo and clinical immunology. The chapters in this book discuss treatments of in vitro infection systems, analysis and quantification of cccDNA and its mutations; in vitro polymerase activity assays; cellular trafficking of core proteins; intracellular calcium metabolism; detection, cloning, and sequencing of HBV markers; and new strategies aimed at exploiting new mechanisms for drug discovery. The book also covers classical methods for resolution of extracellular viral particles by native gel electrophoresis, and methods for detecting HBV antigens in drug discovery. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Cutting-edge and comprehensive, Hepatitis B Virus: Methods and Protocols is a valuable tool for researchers to use toward their advanced studies in HBV.