Hepatitis B is one of a few known non-retroviralviruses which employ reverse transcriptionas a part of its replication process. (HIV, a completely unrelated virus, also uses reverse transcription, but it is a retrovirus.) HBV invades the cell by binding to surface receptor and become internalized. The viral core particles then migrate to the hepatocyte nucleus and the partially double-stranded, relaxed circular genomes (RC-DNA) are repaired to form a covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA), which is the template for viral genomic and sub-genomic RNAs by cellular RNA polymerase II. Of these, the pregenomic RNA (pgRNA is selectively packaged into progeny capsids and is then reverse-transcribed into new RC-DNA. The core can either bud into the endoplasmic reticulum to be enveloped or exported from the cell or recycled back into the genome for conversion to cccDNA.
Polyclonal Goat Antibody.
Rabbit.
Affinity-purified Goat antibodies against the Native Ad/AyHBsAg antigens.1mg/ml in PBS, was passed through a 0.2um Filter into a 50ml sterile conic Tube.
Sterile Filtered solution.
(1ml) PBS.
One year frozen. One month in solution at 4°C.
Immunoreactive with all HBsAg A antigens. Direct ELISA shows signal above cut-off at antibody levels of 100ng/test and above.
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