Immune-induced evolutionary selection focused on a single reading frame in overlapping hepatitis B virus proteins

Journal of Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4558-4566

  Maman, Yaakov ^a   Blancher, Antoine ^b,c   Benichou, Jennifer ^a   Yablonka, Adi ^a   Efroni, Sol ^a   Louzoun, Yoram ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; PROTEIN X; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITOPE MAPPING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CODE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VIRUS MUTATION;

CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; EPITOPES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; SELECTION, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

HEPADNAVIRIDAE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 79955458149     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02142-10     Document Type: Article

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