Article
A double-spliced defective hepatitis B virus genome derived from hepatocellular carcinoma tissue enhanced replication of full-length virus.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Feb 2009
Ma Zhang-Mei, Lin Xu, Wang Yong-Xiang, Tian Xiao-Chen, Xie You-Hua, Wen Yu-Mei
Abstract excerpt
In hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication cycle, pregenomic RNA undergoes splicing and the reverse transcribed defective genomes can be packaged and released. Various types of spliced defective HBV genomes have been isolated from the sera and liver tissues of viral hepatitis B patients. To explore the functions of a 2.2 kb double spliced HBV variant, a 3.2 kb full-length HBV isolate (#97-34) and its 2.2 kb...
Topics
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
- Cell Line
- Culture Media
- DNA, Viral
- Defective Viruses
- Genome, Viral
- Genotype
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B Surface Antigens
- Hepatitis B e Antigens
- Hepatitis B virus
