Polynucleotide modulation of the protease, nucleoside triphosphatase, and helicase activities of a hepatitis C virus NS3-NS4A complex isolated from transfected COS cells

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 3767-3775

  Morgenstern, Kurt A ^a   Landro, James A ^a   Hsiao, Kathy ^a   Lin, Chao ^a   Gu, Yong ^a   Su, Michael S S ^a   Thomson, John A ^a  

^a VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME REGULATION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0031000887     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.5.3767-3775.1997     Document Type: Article

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