polypeptides of hepatitis viruses don't - and - b, post transfusion production process and support for the essay of relevant viral nucleic acids.

摘要

The invention relates to post-transfusional non-A non-B hepatitis viral polypeptide, DNA sequences encoding such viral polypeptide, expression vectors containing such DNA sequences, and hosts transformed by such expression vectors. The invention also relates to the use of such polypeptides in diagnostic assays and vaccine formulations.