肝脏是人体重要的代谢器官。肝炎病毒感染(HBV,HDV)可以在肝脏实质细胞建立慢性感染,引发肝硬化肝癌,严重威胁人类健康,但目前仍旧缺乏有效的治疗手段。本课题组的主要研究方向:1.病毒与宿主免疫系统的相互作用, 2.新型抗病毒靶点的鉴定与开发,3.肝癌发生的分子机制。
Xiaoming Cheng, Takuro Uchida, Yuchen Xia, Regina Umarova, Chun-Jen Liu, Pei-Jer Chen, Anuj Gaggar, Vithika Suri, Marcus M Mücke, Johannes Vermehren, Stefan Zeuzem, Yuji Teraoka, Mitsutaka Osawa, Hiroshi Aikata, Keiji Tsuji, Nami Mori, Shuhei Hige, Yoshiyasu Karino, Michio Imamura, Kazuaki Chayama, T. Jake Liang. Diminished hepatic IFN response following HCV clearance triggers HBV reactivation in coinfection. The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2020 Jun 1;130(6):3205-3220. doi: 10.1172/JCI135616.
Xiaoming Cheng, Yuchen Xia, Elisavet Serti, Peter Daniel Block, Michelle Chung, Kazuaki Chayama, Barbara Rehermann, T. Jake Liang. Hepatitis B virus evades innate immunity of hepatocytes but activates macrophages during infection. Hepatology. 2017 Jun 30. doi: 10.1002/hep.29348.
Xiaoming Cheng#, Marc G. Ghany. Key Milestones in HCV Discovery and Therapeutics. The Innovation, 2020, 1 (3) #co-corresponding author.
Rui Liu*, Li Zhao*, Xiaoming Cheng*, Huan Han*, Cong Li, Dong Li, Andrew Liu, Guosheng Gao, Feng Zhou, Fang Liu, Yingan Jiang, Chengliang Zhu, Yuchen Xia. Clinical characteristics of COVID‐19 patients with hepatitis B virus infection—a retrospective study. Liver International. 2020 41 (4), 720-730 *co-first author
Yuchen Xia, Martin Schlapschy, Volker Morath, Natalie Roeder, Elisabeth I Vogt , Daniela Stadler, Xiaoming Cheng, Ulf Dittmer, Kathrin Sutter, Mathias Heikenwalder, Arne Skerra, Ulrike Protzer. PASylated interferon α efficiently suppresses hepatitis B virus and induces anti-HBs seroconversion in HBV-transgenic mice. Antiviral Res. 2019 Jan;161:134-143. doi: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2018.11.003. Epub 2018 Nov 12.
Yuchen Xia, Xaioming Cheng, Yao Li, Kristin Valdez, Weiping Chen, T.Jake Liang. Hepatitis B virus deregulates cell cycle to promote viral replication and a premalignant phenotype. Journal of Virology. 2018 Jul 18. pii: JVI.00722-18. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00722-18.
Yuchen Xia, Arnaud Carpentier, Xiaoming Cheng, Peter Daniel Block, Yao Zhao, Zhensheng Zhang, Ulrike Protzer, T. Jake Liang. Human stem cell-derived hepatocytes as a model for hepatitis B virus infection, spreading and virus-host interactions. J Hepatol. 2017 Mar;66(3):494-503.
Yuchen Xia*, Daniela Stadler*, Julie Lucifora, Florian Reisinger, Dennis Webb, Marianna Hösel, Thomas Michler, Karin Wisskirchen, Xiaoming Cheng, Ke Zhang,Wen-Min Chou, Jochen M. Wettengel, Antje Malo, Felix Bohne, Dieter Hoffmann, Florian Eyer, Robert Thimme, Christine S. Falk, Wolfgang E.Thasler,Mathias Heikenwälder, Ulrike Protzer. Interferon-γ and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Produced by T cells Reduce the HBV Persistence Form, cccDNA, Without Cytolysis. Gastroenterology. 2016;150:194-205.
L. W. Meredith, K. Hu, X. Cheng, C. R. Howard, T. F. Baumert, P. Balfe, K. F. van de Graaf, U. Protzer, J. A. McKeating. Lentiviral hepatitis B pseudotype entry requires sodium taurocholate co-transporting polypeptide and additional hepatocyte-specific factors. J Gen Virol. 2016 Jan;97(1):121-7.
Julie Lucifora, Yuchen Xia, Florian Reisinger, Ke Zhang, Daniela Stadler, Xiaoming Cheng, Martin F. Sprinzl, Herwig Koppensteiner, Zuzanna Makowska, Tassilo Volz, Caroline Remouchamps, Wen-Min Chou, Wolfgang E. Thasler, Norbert Hüser, David Durantel, T. Jake Liang, Carsten Münk, Markus H. Heim, Jeffrey L. Browning, Emmanuel Dejardin, Maura Dandri, Michael Schindler, Mathias Heikenwalder, Ulrike Protzer. Specific and Nonhepatotoxic Degradation of Nuclear Hepatitis B Virus cccDNA. Science 2014, Volume. 343, no. 6176 Page 1221-1228