Identification of active-site residues in protease 3C of hepatitis A virus by site-directed mutagenesis

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 3062-3068

  Gosert, Rainer ^a,b   Dollenmaier, Günter ^a   Weitz, Manfred ^a  

^a Institute for Clinical Microbiology and Immunology   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATITIS A; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0030972477     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.4.3062-3068.1997     Document Type: Article

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