Hepatitis C virus-encoded NS2-3 protease: Cleavage-site mutagenesis and requirements for bimolecular cleavage

Journal of Virology

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 4127-4136

  Reed, Karen E ^a   Grakoui, Arash ^a   Rice, Charles M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; VIRUS ENZYME;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 0029059334     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.7.4127-4136.1995     Document Type: Article

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