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Assembly Properties of Hepatitis B Virus Core Protein Mutants Correlate with Their Resistance to Assembly-Directed Antivirals.
Journal of virology - 15 Oct 2018
Ruan Lu, Hadden Jodi A, Zlotnick Adam
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) capsid or core protein (Cp) can self-assemble to form an icosahedral capsid. It is now being pursued as a target for small-molecule antivirals that enhance the rate and extent of its assembly to yield empty and/or aberrant capsids. These small molecules are thus called core protein allosteric modulators (CpAMs). We sought to understand the physical basis of CpAM-resistant mutants and...
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