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Hepadnavirus envelope proteins regulate covalently closed circular DNA amplification.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 1990
Summers J, Smith P M, Horwich A L
Abstract excerpt
Primary duck hepatocytes were infected with a mutant duck hepatitis B virus defective in envelope protein but competent for viral DNA synthesis. Cells infected by this mutant accumulated higher levels of viral covalently closed, circular DNA (cccDNA) than those infected by wild-type virus. The accumulation of high levels of cccDNA was due to a failure of the mutant-infected cells to suppress de novo cccDNA...
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