Article
Effects of mutations within and adjacent to the terminal repeats of hepatitis B virus pregenomic RNA on viral DNA synthesis.
Journal of virology - 1 Nov 1997
Perri S, Ganem D
Abstract excerpt
The viral polymerase and several cis-acting sequences are essential for hepadnaviral DNA replication, but additional host factors are likely to be involved in this process. We previously identified two sequences, UBS and DBS (upstream and downstream binding sites), present in multiple copies in a...
Topics
- Cells, Cultured
- DNA, Viral
- Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
- Hepatitis B virus
- Humans
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Mutation
- RNA, Viral
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Viral Core Proteins
- Virus Replication
