X-deficient woodchuck hepatitis virus mutants behave like attenuated viruses and induce protective immunity in vivo

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1523-1531

  Zhang, Zhensheng ^a   Torii, Nobuyuki ^a   Hu, Zongyi ^a   Jacob, James ^b   Liang, T Jake ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEASOME;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNITY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEROCONVERSION; TRANSACTIVATION; VIRUS ATTENUATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MUTANT;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPLICATION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS, WOODCHUCK; MARMOTA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035178992     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI200113787     Document Type: Article

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