Targeting the Achilles' heel of hepatitis C virus

Hepatology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1035-1037

  Love, R A ^a   Parse, H E ^a   Wickersham, J A ^a   Hostomsky, Z ^a   Habuka, N ^a   Moomaw, E W ^a   Adachi, T ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; SERINE PROTEINASE; VIRUS ENZYME; VIRUS PROTEIN;

DRUG DESIGN; DRUG TARGETING; HEPATITIS C; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 20644432435     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510250441     Document Type: Note

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