Hepatitis C virus F protein sequence reveals a lack of functional constraints and a variable pattern of amino acid substitution

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-120

  Cristina, Juan ^a   Lopez, Fernando ^a   Moratorio, Gonzalo ^a   López, Lilia ^a,b   Vasquez, Silvia ^c   García Aguirre, Laura ^a   Chunga, Ausberto ^d  

^a Facultad de Ciencias   (Uruguay)

^b Facultad de Medicina   (Uruguay)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

^d HOSPITAL NACIONAL EDGARDO REBAGLIATI MARTINS   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; STOP CODON; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, TERMINATOR; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 11444257029     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80510-0     Document Type: Article

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