Critical role of the 36-nucleotide insertion in hepatitis B virus genotype G in core protein expression, genome replication, and virion secretion

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 9202-9215

  Li, Ke ^a   Zoulim, Fabien ^b,c   Pichoud, Christian ^b   Kwei, Karen ^a   Villet, Stéphanie ^b,c   Wands, Jack ^a   Li, Jisu ^a   Tong, Shuping ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CORE PROTEIN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VIRION; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CELL LINE; DNA, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 34548145530     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00390-07     Document Type: Article

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