Hepatitis C: Molecular virology and antiviral targets

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 476-482

  Moradpour, Darius ^a   Brass, Volker ^a   Gosert, Rainer ^a   Wölk, Benno ^a   Blum, Hubert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INHIBITION;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; GENES, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0036788397     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4914(02)02395-X     Document Type: Review

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