免 疫 原：Recombinded human hepatitis B core antigen protein
SWISS：Q89714
Human Gene ID：HBcAg

Hepatitis B Virus Core Antigen (HBcAg) is part of the infectious virion containing an inner "core particle" enclosing the viral genome. The icosahedral core particle contains 180 or 240 copies of the core protein. HBcAg is one of the three major clinical antigens of hepatitis B virus but disappears early in the course of infection.
The hepatitis B virus core antigen (HBcAg) is a highly immunogenic subviral particle and functions as both a T-cell-dependent and a T-cell-independent antigen. Therefore, HBcAg may be a promising candidate target for therapeutic vaccine control of chronic HBV infection.
Function：Self assembles to form an icosahedral capsid. Mostcapsid appear to be large particles with a icosahedral symmetry ofT=4 and consist of 240 copies of capsid protein, though a fractionforms smaller T=3 particles consisting of 180 capsid proteins.Entering ca
Subunit：Homodimerizes, then multimerizes. Interacts with cytosolexposed regions of viral L glycoprotein present in thereticulum-to-Golgi compartment. Interacts with human FLNB.
Subcellular Location：Capsid protein: Virion. Host cytoplasm.
Post-translational modifications：Phosphorylated by host SRPK1, SRPK2, and maybe protein kinaseC or GAPDH. Phosphorylation is critical for pregenomic RNApackaging. Protein kinase C phosphorylation is stimulated by HBxprotein and may play a role in transport of the viral genome to thenucle
Similarity：Belongs to the orthohepadnavirus core antigen family.
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