Identification of a C-terminal regulatory motif in hepatitis C virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase: Structural and biochemical analysis

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 9020-9028

  Lévêque, Vincent J P ^a   Johnson, Robert B ^a   Parsons, Stephen ^a   Ren, Jianxin ^a   Xie, Congping ^a   Zhang, Faming ^a   Wang, Q May ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS ENZYME;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA BINDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HEPACIVIRUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA REPLICASE; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0041707714     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.16.9020-9028.2003     Document Type: Article

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