Importin β Can Bind Hepatitis B Virus Core Protein and Empty Core-Like Particles and Induce Structural Changes

• Chao Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Chen, Joseph Che-Yen Wang

  Current address: Center for Biomedical Imaging, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Joseph Che-Yen Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Chen, Joseph Che-Yen Wang

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Elizabeth E. Pierson,

  Current address: Department of Analytical Sciences, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• David Z. Keifer,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Mildred Delaleau,

  Current address: Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer & Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

  Affiliations Universite de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France, CNRS, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France

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• Lara Gallucci,

  Affiliations Universite de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France, CNRS, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France

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• Christian Cazenave,

  Affiliations Universite de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France, CNRS, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France

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• Michael Kann,

  Affiliations Universite de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France, CNRS, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France, CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

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• Martin F. Jarrold,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Adam Zlotnick

  * E-mail: azlotnic@indiana.edu

  Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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