Human hepatitis B virus X protein is detectable in nuclei of transfected cells, and is active for transactivation

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease

Volumn 1453, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 330-340

  Nomura, Takahiro ^a   Lin, Yong ^a   Dorjsuren, Dorjbal ^a   Ohno, Shinsuke ^a   Yamashita, Tatsuya ^a   Murakami, Seishi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatitis B virus X protein; Immunostaining; Subcellular localization; Transactivation; Transfection

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSACTIVATION;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYTOPLASM; EVANS BLUE; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; HEPATITIS B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLASMIDS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

FELIS CATUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 0033046316     PISSN: 09254439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4439(99)00004-6     Document Type: Article

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