Hepatitis B virus nucleocapsids formed by carboxy-terminally mutated core proteins contain spliced viral genomes but lack full-size DNA

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 13812-13818

  Köck, Josef ^a   Nassal, Michael ^a   Deres, Karl ^b   Blum, Hubert E ^a   Von Weizsäcker, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; CORE PROTEIN; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GLUTAMIC ACID; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; NUCLEIC ACID; PREGENOMIC RNA; RNA; SERINE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA SPLICING; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS REPLICATION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEOCAPSID; RNA SPLICING; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 10044265651     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.24.13812-13818.2004     Document Type: Article

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