Full-length hepatitis B virus core protein packages viral and heterologous RNA with similarly high levels of cooperativity

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 7174-7184

  Porterfield, J Zachary ^a,b   Dhason, Mary Savari ^b   Loeb, Daniel D ^c   Nassal, Michael ^d   Stray, Stephen J ^e   Zlotnick, Adam ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

CAPSID; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RNA; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MIRIDAE;

EID: 77953747864     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00586-10     Document Type: Article

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