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Development of a Hepatitis B Virus Reporter System to Monitor the Early Stages of the Replication Cycle
Published on: February 1, 2017
Expression of the hepatitis B virus surface antigen gene in cell culture by using a simian virus 40 vector
Abstract:
We have constructed a simian virus 40 recombinant carrying a fragment of DNA from hepatitis B virus. Cultured monkey kidney cells infected with this recombinant produce hepatitis B surface antigen. The antigen is excreted into the culture medium as 22-nm particles with the same physical properties, antigenic composition, and constituent polypeptides as those found in the sera of patients with type B hepatitis.

