Nuclear Entry of Hepatitis B Virus Capsids Involves Disintegration to Protein Dimers followed by Nuclear Reassociation to Capsids

• Birgit Rabe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birgit Rabe, Mildred Delaleau

  Current address: AiCuris, Wuppertal, Germany

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

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• Mildred Delaleau ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birgit Rabe, Mildred Delaleau

  Affiliation UMR 5234 CNRS-University Bordeaux 2 MCMP, Bordeaux, France

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• Andreas Bischof,

  Current address: Allianz SE, München, Germany

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

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• Michael Foss,

  Affiliation UMR 5234 CNRS-University Bordeaux 2 MCMP, Bordeaux, France

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• Irina Sominskaya,

  Affiliation Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Riga, Latvia

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• Paul Pumpens,

  Affiliation Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Riga, Latvia

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• Christian Cazenave,

  Affiliation UMR 5234 CNRS-University Bordeaux 2 MCMP, Bordeaux, France

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• Michel Castroviejo,

  Affiliation UMR 5234 CNRS-University Bordeaux 2 MCMP, Bordeaux, France

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• Michael Kann

  * E-mail: michael.kann@u-bordeaux2.fr

  Affiliations Institute of Virology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, UMR 5234 CNRS-University Bordeaux 2 MCMP, Bordeaux, France

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