Targeting of hepatitis C virus core protein to mitochondria through a novel C-terminal localization motif

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 7958-7968

  Schwer, Björn ^a   Ren, Shaotang ^c   Pietschmann, Thomas ^b   Kartenbeck, Jürgen ^a   Kaehlcke, Katrin ^a,c   Bartenschlager, Ralf ^b   Yen, T S Benedict ^c   Ott, Melanie ^a,c  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CORE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL LINE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOSOL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HELA CELL; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TARGETING; REPLICON;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 3242673323     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.15.7958-7968.2004     Document Type: Article

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