Hepatitis B virus particle formation in the absence of pregenomic RNA and reverse transcriptase

Journal of Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 4187-4190

  Schormann, Wiebke ^a,b   Kraft, Anke ^a,c   Ponsel, Dirk ^a   Bruss, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; CAPSID PROTEIN C; PREGENOMIC RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; VIRION; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS PARTICLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CAPSID PROTEINS; CELL LINE; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRION;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MIRIDAE;

EID: 33645752279     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.80.8.4187-4190.2006     Document Type: Article

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