Article
Hepatitis B virus X protein interferes with cellular DNA repair.
Journal of virology - 1 Jan 1998
Becker S A, Lee T H, Butel J S, Slagle B L
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx) is a broadly acting transactivator implicated in the development of liver cancer. Recently, HBx has been reported to interact with several different cellular proteins, including our report of its binding to XAP-1, the human homolog of the simian repair protein UVDDB. In the present study, several HBx mutants were used to localize the minimal domain of HBx required for binding...
Topics
- Animals
- Binding Sites
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
- DNA Damage
- DNA Repair
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Genes, Viral
- Hepatitis B virus
- Humans
- Liver Neoplasms
- Mutation
- Protein Binding
