Replication advantage and host factor-independent phenotypes attributable to a common naturally occurring capsid mutation (I97L) in human hepatitis B virus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 76, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 12069-12077

  Suk, Fat Moon ^a   Lin, Min Hui ^a   Newman, Margaret ^a   Pan, Shann ^a   Chen, Sheng Hsuan ^a   Liu, Jean Dean ^a   Shih, Chiaho ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; HEP 2 CELL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS SURVIVAL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CAPSID PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; CELL LINE; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0036889379     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.23.12069-12077.2002     Document Type: Article

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