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Regulation of hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 activity by wild-type and mutant hepatitis B virus X proteins.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 2002
Li Jie, Xu Zhenming, Zheng Yanyan, Johnson Deborah L, Ou Jing-Hsiung
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The hepatitis B virus (HBV) core promoter regulates the transcription of two related RNA products named precore RNA and core RNA. Previous studies indicate that a double-nucleotide mutation that occurs frequently during chronic HBV infection converts a nuclear receptor binding site in the core promoter to the binding site of the transcription factor hepatocyte nuclear factor-1 (HNF-1) and specifically suppresses...
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