Mosaic hepatitis B virus core particles allow insertion of extended foreign protein segments

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2049-2053

  Koletzki, Diana ^a   Zankl, Andreas ^a   Gelderblom, Hans R ^b   Meisel, Helga ^a   Dislers, Andris ^c   Borisova, Galina ^c   Pumpens, Paul ^c   Krüger, Detlev H ^a   Ulrich, Rainer ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c LATVIAN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND STUDY CENTRE   (Latvia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; EPITOPE; HYBRID PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOP CODON; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HANTAVIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 0030825745     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-8-2049     Document Type: Article

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