Are in vitro hepatitis B core promoter mutations important for clinical alterations in viral load?

Antiviral Research

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 142-151

  Cheng, Yan ^a   Seet, Bee Leng ^a   Ong, Carmen Shair Ling ^a   Wasser, Shanthi ^a   Tan, Theresa May Chin ^a   Peter, Frank Josef ^a   Lim, Seng Gee ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Core promoter; Hepatitis B e antigen seroconversion; Hepatitis B virus; Mutation; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; INTERFERON; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BINDING SITE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEROCONVERSION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDATION STUDY; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADULT; BINDING SITES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 32644486278     PISSN: 01663542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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