Hepatitis C virus structural proteins assemble into viruslike particles in insect cells

Journal of Virology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 3827-3836

  Baumert, Thomas F ^a   Ito, Susumu ^b   Wong, David T ^c   Liang, T Jake ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; INSECT; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; VACCINE PRODUCTION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY;

EID: 0031977996     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.5.3827-3836.1998     Document Type: Article

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