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Hepadnaviral assembly is initiated by polymerase binding to the encapsidation signal in the viral RNA genome.
The EMBO journal - 1 Sept 1992
Bartenschlager R, Schaller H
Abstract excerpt
Hepadnaviruses, as well as other pararetroviruses, express their pol (P) gene product unfused to the preceding core gene implying that these retroelements have developed a mechanism for initiating assembly and replication that is principally different from the one used by retroviruses and retrotransposons. We have analysed this mechanism for the human hepatitis B virus by using a newly developed, highly sensitive...
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