Human hepatitis B virus production in avian cells is characterized by enhanced RNA splicing and the presence of capsids containing shortened genomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Köck, Josef ^a   Rösler, Christine ^a   Zhang, Jingjing ^a,b   Blum, Hubert E ^a   Nassal, Michael ^a   Thoma, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b People's Hospital of Zhong Shan City   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; GENOMIC RNA; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA SPLICING; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME;

AVES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MIRIDAE;

EID: 84872158118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037248     Document Type: Article

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