Charged residues in the transmembrane domains of hepatitis C virus glycoproteins play a major role in the processing, subcellular localization, and assembly of these envelope proteins

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 3623-3633

  Cocquerel, Laurence ^a   Wychowski, Czeslaw ^a   Minner, Frederic ^a   Penin, François ^b   Dubuisson, Jean ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE ET CHIMIE DES PROTÉINES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVELOPE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FLAVIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLAVIVIRIDAE; HEPACIVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 0034031173     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.8.3623-3633.2000     Document Type: Article

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