From DCPD to NTCP: The long journey towards identifying a functional hepatitis B virus receptor
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From DCPD to NTCP: The long journey towards identifying a functional hepatitis B virus receptor
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the prototype of hepatotropic DNA viruses (hepadnaviruses) infecting a wide range of human and non-human hosts. Previous studies with duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) identified duck carboxypeptidase D (dCPD) as a host specific binding partner for full-length large envelope protein, and p120 as a binding partner for several truncated versions of the large envelope protei...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical and Molecular Hepatology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2287-2728,2287-285X
DOI: 10.3350/cmh.2015.21.3.193