Genome replication, virion secretion, and e antigen expression of naturally occurring hepatitis B virus core promoter mutants

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 6601-6612

  Parekh, Sameer ^a   Zoulim, Fabien ^b   Ahn, Sang Hoon ^a   Tsai, Adrienne ^a   Li, Jisu ^a   Kawai, Shigenobu ^a   Khan, Nasser ^a   Trépo, Christian ^b   Wands, Jack ^a   Tong, Shuping ^a,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Liver Research Center Brown University Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIREMIA; VIRION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0037942914     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.12.6601-6612.2003     Document Type: Article

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