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Virion Secretion of Hepatitis B Virus Naturally Occurring Core Antigen Variants.
Cells - 30 Dec 2020
Shih Chiaho, Wu Szu-Yao, Chou Shu-Fan, Yuan Ta-Tung Thomas
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In natural infection, hepatitis B virus (HBV) core protein (HBc) accumulates frequent mutations. The most frequent HBc variant in chronic hepatitis B patients is mutant 97L, changing from an isoleucine or phenylalanine to a leucine (L) at HBc amino acid 97. One dogma in the HBV research field is that wild type HBV secretes predominantly virions containing mature double-stranded DNA genomes. Immature genomes,...
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