Inhibition of hepatitis C virus translation and subgenomic replication by siRNAs directed against highly conserved HCV sequence and cellular HCV cofactors

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 225-234

  Korf, Mortimer ^a   Jarczak, Dominik ^a   Beger, Carmela ^a   Manns, Michael P ^a   Krüger, Martin ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

HCV; HuR; PSMA7; RNAi; siRNA; UTR

Indexed keywords

HU ANTIGEN R; PROTEASOME; PROTEOSOME ALPHA SUBUNIT 7; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; RNA INTERFERENCE; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER; PLASMIDS; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 21844438516     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2005.02.046     Document Type: Article

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