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Hepatitis B Virus
Researchers' work from INSERM focuses on hepatitis B virus
August 6th, 2007
New investigation results, "The translocation motif of hepatitis B virus envelope proteins is dispensable for infectivity," are detailed in a study published in The Journal of Virology. According to recent research published in the Journal of Virology, "The early events of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remain unclear." "In 2006, Stoeckl et al. proposed a new entry mechanism involving a translocation motif (TLM) present in the pre-S2 domain of envelope proteins (L. Stoeckl, A. Funk, A. Kopitzki, B. Brandenburg, S. Oess, H. Will, H. Sirma, and E. Hildt, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103:6730-6734, 2006). After receptor binding and internalization into the...
Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2007-08-06)
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