Hepatitis C virus NS5B RNA replicase specifically binds ribosomes

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 543-550

  Tanaka, Torahiko ^a,d   Sugiyama, Kazuo ^a   Ikeda, Masanori ^a,e   Naganuma, Atsushi ^a,b   Nozaki, Akito ^a   Saito, Masaki ^a   Shimotohno, Kunitada ^c   Kato, Nobuyuki ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^e YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C virus; Ribosomes; RNA replicase

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIBOSOME; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0033916933     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2000.tb02532.x     Document Type: Article

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