Hepatitis E Virus Produced from Cell Culture Has a Lipid Envelope.

The absence of a productive cell culture system hampered detailed analysis of the structure and protein composition of the hepatitis E virion. In this study, hepatitis E virus from a robust HEV cell culture system and from the feces of infected monkeys at the peak of virus excretion was purified by...

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Main Authors: Ying Qi, Feng Zhang, Li Zhang, Tim J Harrison, Weijin Huang, Chenyan Zhao, Wei Kong, Chunlai Jiang, Youchun Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4498737?pdf=render