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Use of dominant negative mutants of the hepadnaviral core protein as antiviral agents.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Nov 1996
Scaglioni P, Melegari M, Takahashi M, Chowdhury J R, Wands J
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Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major cause of acute and chronic liver diseases. We have recently described HBV and woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) dominant negative (DN) core mutants that were capable of inhibiting wild-type viral replication by 95%. These mutants may represent a...
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