Virus-specific cofactor requirement and chimeric hepatitis C virus/GB virus B nonstructural protein 3

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 4291-4301

  Butkiewicz, Nancy ^a   Yao, Nanhua ^a   Zhong, Weidong ^a   Wright Minogue, Jacquelyn ^a   Ingravallo, Paul ^a   Zhang, Rumin ^a   Durkin, James ^a   Standring, David N ^a   Baroudy, Bahige M ^a   Sangar, David V ^b   Lemon, Stanley M ^b   Lau, Johnson Y N ^a   Hong, Zhi ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERINE PROTEINASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HEPATITIS GB VIRUS B; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVIVIRIDAE; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYPROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA HELICASES; SAGUINUS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0034001928     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.9.4291-4301.2000     Document Type: Article

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