| Literature DB >> 3612958 |
A Z Zelent, M A Sells, M Shvartsman, P M Price, G Acs.
Abstract
The NIH 3T3-derived cell line psi AM22b, which carries a defective Moloney murine leukemia virus, was transfected with a plasmid carrying the neo gene and two head-to-tail copies of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome positioned with opposing polarities. Both the two HBV dimers and the neo gene were located between two Moloney murine leukemia virus long terminal repeats. Poly(A)+ RNAs isolated from one clone that grew in the presence of G418 contained the two major classes of HBV-specific transcripts (3.5-kilobase pregenome and 2.1-kilobase mRNAs) in approximately equivalent amounts, which was reminiscent of the profiles of viral mRNAs from the livers of infected humans and chimpanzees.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID: 3612958 PMCID: PMC255822
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103