Specific hepatitis B virus minus-strand DNA synthesis requires only the 5′ encapsidation signal and the 3′-proximal direct repeat DR1

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 585-589

  Rieger, Andrea ^a   Nassal, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029655242     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.1.585-589.1996     Document Type: Article

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