Hepatitis B virus maturation is affected by the incorporation of core proteins having a C-terminal substitution of arginine or lysine stretches

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2661-2671

  Hui, Eric Ka Wai ^a   Chen, Kun Lin ^a   Lo, Szecheng J ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CORE PROTEIN; LYSINE; VIRUS DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPAIR; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0032883283     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-80-10-2661     Document Type: Article

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