The hepatitis B virus X protein transactivates viral core gene expression in vivo

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 10399-10405

  Reifenberg, Kurt ^a   Wilts, Heike ^a   Löhler, Jürgen ^b   Nusser, Petra ^a   Hanano, Ralph ^a   Guidotti, Luca G ^c   Chisari, Francis V ^c   Schlicht, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN X; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS CORE;

EID: 0032750419     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.12.10399-10405.1999     Document Type: Article

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