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Mechanism of suppression of hepatitis B virus precore RNA transcription by a frequent double mutation.
Journal of virology - 1 Feb 1999
Li J, Buckwold V E, Hon M W, Ou J H
Abstract excerpt
A double mutation which converts nucleotide 1765 from A to T and nucleotide 1767 from G to A is frequently found in the hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome isolated from HBV patients with chronic hepatitis symptoms. This double mutation is located in the core promoter that controls the transcription of the precore RNA and the core RNA. In addition, this double mutation also resides in the X protein coding sequence,...
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