Mutagenesis of a hepatitis B virus reverse transcriptase yields temperature-sensitive virus

Virology

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 430-439

  Seeger, Christoph ^a   Leber, Ernest H ^a   Wiens, Louise K ^a   Hu, Janming ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0030586781     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1996.0440     Document Type: Article

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