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Exposure of RNA templates and encapsidation of spliced viral RNA are influenced by the arginine-rich domain of human hepatitis B virus core antigen (HBcAg 165-173).
Journal of virology - 1 Feb 2005
Le Pogam Sophie, Chua Pong Kian, Newman Margaret, Shih Chiaho
Abstract excerpt
Previously, human hepatitis B virus (HBV) mutant 164, which has a truncation at the C terminus of the HBV core antigen (HBcAg), was speculated to secrete immature genomes. For this study, we further characterized mutant 164 by different approaches. In addition to the 3.5-kb pregenomic RNA (pgRNA), the mutant preferentially encapsidated the 2.2-kb or shorter species of spliced RNA, which can be reverse transcribed...
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