A single element within the hepatitis B virus enhancer binds multiple proteins and responds to multiple stimuli.

doi:10.1128/JVI.64.4.1861-1863.1990

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A single element within the hepatitis B virus enhancer binds multiple proteins and responds to multiple stimuli.

Journal of virology - 1 Apr 1990

Faktor O, Budlovsky S, Ben-Levy R, Shaul Y

Abstract excerpt

The hepatitis B virus enhancer can be dissected into multiple functional elements, one of which is the E element. We show here that the E element binds multiple nuclear proteins that are essential for its enhancer activity. These findings, together with the ability of this element to respond to a...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
Cell Line
DNA, Viral
DNA-Binding Proteins
Enhancer Elements, Genetic
Hepatitis B virus
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Nuclear Proteins
Oligodeoxyribonucleotides

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