A structural model for duck hepatitis B virus core protein derived by extensive mutagenesis

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 13218-13229

  Nassal, Michael ^a   Leifer, Immanuel ^a   Wingert, Ida ^a   Dallmeier, Kai ^a   Prinz, Simone ^b   Vorreiter, Jolanta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CORE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; EPITOPE MAPPING; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MORPHOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; EPITOPE MAPPING; HEPATITIS B VIRUS, DUCK; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

DUCK HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 36348974645     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00846-07     Document Type: Article

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