Isolation and characterization of RNA aptamers specific for the hepatitis C virus nonstructural protein 3 protease

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 3685-3694

  Fukuda, Kotaro ^a   Vishnuvardhan, Daesety ^a,c   Sekiya, Satoru ^a,b   Hwang, Joonsung ^a,b   Kakiuchi, Nobuko ^a   Taira, Kazunari ^a,b,d   Shimotohno, Kunitada ^e   Kumar, Penmetcha K R ^a   Nishikawa, Satoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NONE

Author keywords

HCV; NS3 serine protease; RNA aptamer; SELEX

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENZYME;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME BINDING; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0033938340     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01400.x     Document Type: Article

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