List of most relevant publications:
1. Cătălin Lazăr, Mihaela Uţă, Norica Brânză-Nichita, „Modulation of the unfolded protein response by the human hepatitis B virus.” Front. Microbiol. 5:433. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00433, August 19, 2014. IF=4.165
2. Cătălin Lazăr, Mihaela Uţă, Ştefana Maria Petrescu, Norica Brânză-Nichita, ”Novel function of the endoplasmic reticulum degradation-enhancing α-mannosidase-like proteins in the human hepatitis B virus life cycle, mediated by the middle envelope protein.” Cell Microbiol. doi:10.1111/cmi.12653, August 4, 2016. IF=4.554
3. Mihaela Uţă, Livia E. Sima, Valentina Dincă, Patrik. Hoffmann, Norica Brânză-Nichita, „Development of a DsRed-expressing HepaRG cell line for real-time monitoring of hepatocyte-like cell differentiation by fluorescence imaging, with application in screening of novel geometric microstructuredcellgrowthsubstrates.”BiomedMicrodevices19(1),3.32017. IF=2.062
4. Mihaela Uţă, Cătălin Lazăr, Gabriela Chiriţoiu, Ştefana Maria Petrescu, Norica Brânză-Nichita, ”The Endoplasmic Reticulum-Associated Degradation pathway regulates formation of Hepatitis B virus covalently closed circular DNA in HepaRG cells” submitted.
