Expression of recombinant hepatitis C virus non-structural protein 5B in Escherichia coli

Virus Research

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-149

  Al, Ronald H ^a   Xie, Yiping ^a   Wang, Yuhuan ^a   Hagedorn, Curt H ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis C; HCV Non structural protein 5B; Hepatitis C virus; Plus strand RNA viruses; RNA dependent RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOBINS; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; POLY U; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0031951177     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1702(97)00147-0     Document Type: Article

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