Article
Defective replication units of hepatitis B virus.
Journal of virology - 1 Apr 1990
Schranz P, Zentgraf H, Loncarević I F, Niepmann M, Schröder C H
Abstract excerpt
Templates for the synthesis of defective hepatitis B virus RNA pregenomes were constructed. Viral sequences in these constructs were replaced by the neomycin resistance gene. Deletions spanned up to 80% of the genome and did not include the cohesive end region. The size of the defective replication units was reduced up to half of the wild-type unit length. After cotransfection with replication competent wild-type...
Topics
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
- DNA Replication
- DNA, Viral
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic
- Hepatitis B virus
- Humans
- Liver Neoplasms
- Mutation
- Plasmids
- RNA, Viral
- Templates, Genetic
- Virus Replication
