The conserved amino-terminal region (amino acids 1-20) of the hepatitis B virus X protein shows a transrepression function

Virus Research

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 157-165

  Parashar Misra, Kamana ^a   Mukherji, Atish ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

Author keywords

CAT assay; Cell transfection; HBx; Hepatitis B virus; Tandem repeats; Transactivation; Transrepression

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MONOMER; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLYMER; PROTEIN C JUN; PROTEIN X; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REPORTER GENE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHO CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

HEPADNAVIRIDAE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MAMMALIA; VECTORS;

EID: 4444255944     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2004.05.006     Document Type: Article

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