Effect of basal core promoter and pre-core mutations on hepatitis B virus replication

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 901-909

  Jammeh, Saffie ^a   Tavner, Fiona ^a   Watson, Roger ^a   Thomas, Howard C ^a   Karayiannis, Peter ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GENOMIC RNA; GUANINE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; THYMINE; VIRUS DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOP CODON; UPREGULATION; VIRION; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; WILD TYPE; BLOOD; GENETICS; HEPATITIS B; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TUMOR CELL LINE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEOCAPSID; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 45549106460     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.83468-0     Document Type: Article

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