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Reduced genetic distance and high replication levels increase the RNA recombination rate of hepatitis delta virus.
Virus research - 2 Jan 2015
Lin Chia-Chi, Yang Zhi-Wei, Iang Shan-Bei, Chao Mei
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) replication is carried out by host RNA polymerases. Since homologous inter-genotypic RNA recombination is known to occur in HDV, possibly via a replication-dependent process, we hypothesized that the degree of sequence homology and the replication level should be related to the recombination frequency in cells co-expressing two HDV sequences. To confirm this, we separately...
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