Article
Mutations in the transcriptional regulatory region of the precore and core/pregenome of a hepatitis B virus with defective HBeAg production.
Fukuoka igaku zasshi = Hukuoka acta medica - 1 Nov 1994
Moriyama K, Takada T, Tsutsumi Y, Fukada K, Ishibashi H, Niho Y, Maeda Y
Abstract excerpt
Termination mutations in the precore open reading frame of hepatitis B virus (HBV) variants with defective hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) production have been demonstrated in both infected patients who have seroconverted to anti-HBe and those with fulminant hepatitis B. A donated plasma sample was...
Topics
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- Codon
- DNA, Viral
- Female
- Genome, Viral
- Hepatitis B e Antigens
- Hepatitis B virus
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Transcription, Genetic
