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Fidelity of hepatitis B virus polymerase
17 Jun 2003
Abstract excerpt
Although efficient vaccines are available, chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection poses a major health problem worldwide, and prolonged treatment of chronically infected HBV patients with nucleoside analogs often results in drug-resistant HBV variants. Therefore, it is critical to evaluate the contribution of the HBV polymerase to mutations. FLAG-tagged wild-type (FPolE) and mutant (FPolE/D551A) HBV polymerases have...
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