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The pet element was required for pregenome transcription, while deletion of the net element led to abnormally long transcripts due to a failure to form 3' ends during transcription.
The study identifies pet and net as critical elements for proper transcription and termination in duck hepatitis B virus.
Animal data on DHBV transcription elements warrant no practice change; leaves open therapeutic targeting pending human validation.
We report the presence of two elements, pet and net, that are required for proper transcription of the duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV). These regions were previously identified by using plasmid clones of the virus in transient expression assays (M. Huang and J. Summers, J. Virol. 68:1564-1572, 1994). In this study, we further analyzed these regions by using in vitro-synthesized circular DHBV DNA monomers to mimic the authentic transcriptional template. We observed that pet was required for pregenome transcription from circular viral monomers, and in the absence of pet-dependent transcription, expression of the viral envelope genes was increased. We found that deletion of net in circularized DNA monomers led to the production of abnormally long transcripts due to a failure to form 3' ends during transcription. In addition, we report the presence of a net-like region in the mammalian hepadnavirus woodchuck hepatitis virus. These results are consistent with a model that net is a region involved in transcription termination and that in DHBV, pet is required for transcription complexes to read through this region during the first pass through net.
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Beckel‐Mitchener et al. (1997) studied Duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV). pet and net transcriptional elements was evaluated on pregenome transcription and 3' end formation. The pet element was required for pregenome transcription, while deletion of the net element led to abnormally long transcripts due to a failure to form 3' ends during transcription.
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