
Hepatitis B virus DNA polymerase
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Viral protein
A viral protein is a protein generated by a virus.Many are structural, forming the viral envelope and capsid. However, there are also viral nonstructural proteins and viral regulatory and accessory proteins.More than 490 have been identified....
. It encodes a DNA polymerase
DNA polymerase
A DNA polymerase is an enzyme that helps catalyze in the polymerization of deoxyribonucleotides into a DNA strand. DNA polymerases are best known for their feedback role in DNA replication, in which the polymerase "reads" an intact DNA strand as a template and uses it to synthesize the new strand....
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