A study on sequence variations in pre-S/surface, X and enhancer II/core promoter/precore regions of occult hepatitis B virus in non-B, non-C hepatocellular carcinoma patients in Taiwan.
PMID: 19431214
2009
International journal of cancer
Abstract: Compared with the HBsAg-positive HCC controls, occult HBV-infected HCC patients had higher frequencies of M1I and Q2K in pre-S2 gene, G185R and S210N in surface gene, A36T and A44L in X gene, and G1721A in enhancer II gene, and had lower rates of pre-S deletions and A1762T/G1764A, PMID: 9722876
1998
Archives of virology
Abstract: 3-beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3-beta-HSD) activity coded for by the A44L gene of vaccinia virus (VV) was demonstrated in CV-1 cultures infected by all five VV strains tested, viz.
Abstract: Deletion of the A44L gene in two Praha virus-derived clones (the moderately virulent P13 and the highly attenuated P20), the WR and DD viruses resulted in absence of 3-beta-HSD activity from infected cultures.
Abstract: Recombinant VVs expressing either varicella-zoster virus glycoprotein E (VZV-gE) or hepatitis B virus preS2-S protein (HBV-preS2-S) and their respective A44L deleted mutants were used in immunogenicity tests in mice.
Abstract: The virulence for mice of P13 was not affected, and that of WR was only slightly decr