Mechanism of suppression of hepatitis B virus precore RNA transcription by a frequent double mutation

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 1239-1244

  Li, Jie ^a   Buckwold, Victor E ^a,c   Hon, Man Wai ^a   Ou, Jing Hsiung ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0032954375     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.2.1239-1244.1999     Document Type: Article

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