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Hepatitis core antigen
Sign in to saveAlso known as Viral_capsid_core_Hepatitis, IPR002006, Hepatitis_core, HBcAg [HBV]
thumb|Schematic overview of the hepatitis B virus particle. HBcAg is a constituent of the nucleocapsid core (green hexagon). thumb|The genome organisation of HBV. Some genes overlap. (ORF Core, at bottom left, encodes HBcAg.
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thumb|Schematic overview of the hepatitis B virus particle. HBcAg is a constituent of the nucleocapsid core (green hexagon). thumb|The genome organisation of HBV. Some genes overlap. (ORF Core, at bottom left, encodes HBcAg.
HBcAg (core antigen) is a hepatitis B viral protein. It is an indicator of active viral replication; this means the person infected with Hepatitis B can likely transmit the virus on to another person (i.e. the person is infectious).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hepatitis core antigen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.