Tandem fusion of hepatitis B core antigen allows assembly of virus-like particles in bacteria and plants with enhanced capacity to accommodate foreign proteins.

Tandem fusion of hepatitis B core antigen allows assembly of virus-like particles in bacteria and plants with enhanced capacity to accommodate foreign proteins.

The core protein of the hepatitis B virus, HBcAg, assembles into highly immunogenic virus-like particles (HBc VLPs) when expressed in a variety of heterologous systems. Specifically, the major insertion region (MIR) on the HBcAg protein allows the insertion of foreign sequences, which are then expos...

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Main Authors: Hadrien Peyret, Annick Gehin, Eva C Thuenemann, Donatienne Blond, Aadil El Turabi, Lucy Beales, Dean Clarke, Robert J C Gilbert, Elizabeth E Fry, David I Stuart, Kris Holmes, Nicola J Stonehouse, Mike Whelan, William Rosenberg, George P Lomonossoff, David J Rowlands
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120751
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