Clearance of persistent hepatitis C virus infection in humanized mice using a claudin-1-targeting monoclonal antibody Laurent Mailly1, 2, Fei Xiao1, 2, *, Joachim Lupberger1, 2, *, Garrick K. Wilson3, Philippe Aubert4, 5, 6, François H. T. Duong7, Diego Calabrese7, Céline Leboeuf1, 2, Isabel Fofana1, 2, Christine Thumann1, 2, Simonetta Bandiera1, 2, Marc Lütgehetmann8, Tassilo Volz8, Christopher Davis3, Helen J. Harris3, Christopher J. Mee3, Erika Girardi2, 9, Béatrice Chane-Woon-Ming2, 9, Maria Ericsson10, Nicola Fletcher3, Ralf Bartenschlager11, 12, Patrick Pessaux1, 2, 13, Koen Vercauteren14, Philip Meuleman14, Pascal Villa2, 15, Lars Kaderali16, Sébastien Pfeffer2, 9, Markus H. Heim7, Michel Neunlist4, 5, 6, Mirjam B. Zeisel1, 2, Maura Dandri8, Jane A. McKeating3, Eric Robinet1, 2, § and Thomas F. Baumert1, 2, 13, § 1Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U1110, Institut de Recherche sur les Maladies Virales et Hépatiques, Strasbourg, France; 2Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France; 3Hepatitis C Research Group, Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 4Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U913, Nantes, France; 5Université de Nantes, Nantes, France; 6Institut des Maladies de l’Appareil Digestif, CHU Nantes, Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France; 7Department of Biomedicine, Hepatology Laboratory, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; 8I. Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; 9Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS – UPR 9002, Strasbourg, France; 10Electron Microscopy Facility, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; 11Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; 12German Centre for Infection Research, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; 13Pôle Hépato-Digestif, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France; 14Center for Vaccinology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; 15Plateforme de Chimie Biologique Intégrative de Strasbourg, UMS 3286 CNRS-UdS & FMTS, Illkirch, France; 16Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry, Medical Faculty, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. *These authors contributed equally to the work.
- These authors contributed equally to the work.
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