Regulation of hepatitis B virus gene expression by its two enhancers

Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 598-599

  Fu, Lei ^a   Wu, Xue ^a   Kong, Yu Ying ^a   Wang, Yuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Enhancer; Entire transcriptional unit; Expression; Hepatitis B virus (HBV); Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444368490     PISSN: 05829879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Guo W T et al. Characterization of the hepatitis B virus EnhI enhancer and X promoter complex. J Virol, 1991, 65: 6686-6692.
2. Dikstein R et al. Functional orginization of the hapatitis B virus enhancer. Mol Cell Biol, 1990, 10: 3683-3689.
3. Wang Y et al. A new enhancer element, ENII, identified in the X gene of hepatitis B virus. J Virol, 1990, 64: 3977-3981.
4. Wu X et al. Functional organization of enhancer (ENII) of hepatitis B virus. Virology, 1993, 191: 490-494.
5. Sambrook J et al. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. 2nd ed, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1989.
6. Summers J et al. Morphogenetic and regulatory effects of mutations in the envelope proteins of an avian hepadnavirus. J Virol, 1991, 65: 1310-1317.
7. Lopez-Cabrera M et al. Transcriptional factor C/EBP binds to and transactivates the enhancer element II of the hepatitis B virus. Virology, 1991, 183: 825-829.
8. Zhou D X et al. Differential regulation of the hepatitis B virus surface gene promoters by a second viral enhancer. J Biol Chem, 1990, 265: 20731-20734.
9. Johnson J L et al. Characterization of a functional hepatooyte nuclear factor 3 binding site in the hepatitis B virus nucleocapsid promoter. Virology, 1995, 208: 147-158.
10. Yuh C H et al. Transcriptioual regulation of precore and pregenomic RNAs of hepatitis B virus. J Virol, 1992, 66: 4073-4084.