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SUBMITTER: Gudima S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1866104 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of virology 20070124 8
Previous studies have attempted to clarify the roles of the pre-S1 and pre-S2 domains of the large envelope protein of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in attachment and entry into susceptible cells. Difficulties arise in that these domains contain regions involved in the nucleocapsid assembly of HBV and overlapping with the coding regions of the viral polymerase and RNA sequences required for reverse transcription. Such difficulties can be circumvented with hepatitis delta virus (HDV), which needs the H ...[more]