Article
Core promoter: a critical region where the hepatitis B virus makes decisions.
World journal of gastroenterology - 14 Jan 2014
Quarleri Jorge
Abstract excerpt
The core promoter (CP) of the viral genome plays an important role for hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication as it directs initiation of transcription for the synthesis of both the precore and pregenomic (pg) RNAs. The CP consists of the upper regulatory region and the basal core promoter (BCP). The CP overlaps with the 3'-end of the X open reading frames and the 5'-end of the precore region, and contains...
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