Chronic viral hepatitis
Molecular biology of hepatitis B viruses
(Prof. Dr. Volker Bruss)
Selected Publications
Pairan A, Koch A, and Bruss V (2007) Functional surfaces of the hepatitis B virus capsid. (in preparation)
Gudima S, He Y, Meier A, Chang J, Chen R, Jarnik M, Nicolas E, Bruss V, and Taylor J (2007) Assembly of hepatitis delta virus: particle characterization, including the ability to infect primary human hepatocytes. J Virol 81:3608-3617.
Gudima S, Meier A, Dunbrack R, Taylor J, and Bruss V (2007) Two potentially important elements of the hepatitis B virus large envelope protein are dispensable for the infectivity of hepatitis delta virus. J Virol 81:4343-44347.
Schormann W, Kraft A, Ponsel D, and Bruss V (2006) Hepatitis B virus particle formation in the absence of pregenomic RNA and reverse transcriptase. J Virol 80:4187-4190.
Kluge B, Schläger M, Pairan A, and Bruss V (2005) Determination of the minimal distance between the matrix and transmembrane domains of the large hepatitis B virus envelope protein. J Virol 79:7918-7921.
Ponsel D und Bruss V (2003) Mapping of amino acid side chains on the surface of hepatitis B virus capsids required for envelopment and virion formation. J Virol 77:416-422.