Inhibition of nonhomologous end joining‐mediated DNA repair enhances anti‐HBV CRISPR therapy
Kazuhiro Murai, Takahiro Kodama, Hayato Hikita, Akiyoshi Shimoda, Makoto Fukuoka, Keisuke Fukutomi, Satoshi Shigeno, Yuto Shiode, Daisuke Motooka, Yuichiro Higuchi, Kei Miyakawa, Hiroshi Suemizu, Akihide Ryo, Yuki Tahata, Yuki Makino, Ryoko Yamada, Ryotaro Sakamori, Tomohide Tatsumi, Tetsuo Takehara – 23 May 2022 – Current anti–hepatitis B virus (HBV) therapies have little effect on covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) and fail to eliminate HBV.