Hepatitis C virus core protein: Carboxy-terminal boundaries of two processed species suggest cleavage by a signal peptide peptidase

Virology

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 93-104

  Hüssy, Peter ^a   Langen, Hanno ^a   Mous, Jan ^a   Jacobsen, Helmut ^a  

^a F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATITIS C; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS CORE;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; INSECTA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0030273064     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1996.0510     Document Type: Article

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