Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology (한국응용약물학회:학술대회논문집)
- 1993.11a
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- Pages.39-40
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- 1993
Functions of Hepatitis B Virus- X Gene product
Abstract
Hepatitis B virus (HBV)is a member of the Hepadna virus family whose members share a characteristic virion structure and genome size, around 3.2kb in a paritially double-stranded form. The genome of HBV contains four overlapping open reading frames designated as P(polymerase). C(core), S(surface antigen)and X. The X gene has potential to encode 154 amino acids protein.
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