Improving proteolytic cleavage at the 3A/3B site of the hepatitis A virus polyprotein impairs processing and particle formation, and the impairment can be complemented in trans by 3AB and 3ABC

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 9867-9878

  Kusov, Yuri ^a   Gauss Müller, Verena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; HEPATITIS A; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0344240134     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.12.9867-9878.1999     Document Type: Article

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