Nature Reviews Microbiology 2017-07-10

Viral infection: Packing to leave

Ashley York

Index: 10.1038/nrmicro.2017.81

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Abstract

In this study, Patel, White et al. discover that the hepatitis B virus pre-genome RNA contains specific nucleotide motifs that mediate interactions with the viral capsid protein to drive nucleocapsid assembly.