Efficient hammerhead ribozyme-mediated cleavage of the structured hepatitis B virus encapsidation signal in vitro and in cell extracts, but not in intact cells.

doi:10.1093/nar/23.24.4954

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Efficient hammerhead ribozyme-mediated cleavage of the structured hepatitis B virus encapsidation signal in vitro and in cell extracts, but not in intact cells.

Nucleic acids research - 25 Dec 1995

Beck J, Nassal M

Abstract excerpt

Hepatitis B virus (HBV), the causative agent of B-type hepatitis in man, is a small enveloped DNA virus that replicates through reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate, the terminally redundant RNA pregenome. An essential highly conserved cis-element present twice on this RNA is the encapsid...

Topics

Base Sequence
Capsid
Cell Line
Hepatitis B virus
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
RNA, Catalytic
Virus Replication

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