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The hepatitis B virus-associated beta antigen was found in the serum of experimentally infected chimpanzee as an internal component of a discrete subpopulation of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) particles. The 35- to 37-nm particles banded in CsCl at 1.24-1.25 g/cm3 and sedimented with a mobility intermediate between that of the hepatitis B virion and that of the 22-nm form of HBsAg. The particles contained only indistinct internal structure by electron microscopy and were not unique to delta agent infection, similar particles without delta-antigen activity being observed in the preinfection serum of HBsAg carrier chimpanzees. A small RNA (Mr, 5 X 10(5)) was temporally associated with delta antigen in the serum of infected chimpanzees and copurified with the delta-antigen-associated particles. This RNA is smaller than the genomes of known RNA viruses but larger than the viroids of higher plants.

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Author

M Rizzetto; B Hoyer; M G Canese; J W Shih; R H Purcell; J L Gerin

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Published

1980

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)