Reduced precore transcription and enhanced core-pregenome transcription of hepatitis B virus DNA after replacement of the precore-core promoter with sequences associated with e antigen-seronegative persistent infections

Virology

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 269-280

  Moriyama, Kosei ^a   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a   Tsuda, Fumio ^b   Mayumi, Makoto ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA VIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0030589455     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1996.0655     Document Type: Article

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