Recombinant Hepatitis B Virus

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.

HBcAg subtype adw2 produced in E.Coli, is a single, non-glycosylated, polypeptide chain containing 1-149 amino acids and having a molecular weight of approximately 20kDa. HBcAg adw2 1-149 protamine-like domain was truncated in order to enhance the differentiation of anti-HBe in ELISA test.
HBcAg is fused to a his tag and purified by proprietary chromatographic techniques.

Escherichia Coli.

Sterile filtered colorless solution.

Phosphate buffered saline and 25mM K₂CO₃.

Greater than 90% as determined by SDS-PAGE.

MDIDPYKEFG ATVELLSFLP SDFFPSVRDL LDTASALYRE ALESPEHCSP HHTALRQAIL CWGELMTLAT WVGNNLEDPA SRDLVVNYVN TNVGLKIRQL LWFHISCLTF GRETVLEYLV SFGVWIRTPP AYRPPNAPIL

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