Structural requirements for assembly and homotypic interactions of the hepatitis C virus core protein

Virus Research

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 137-143

  Kim, Meehyein ^a   Ha, Youngju ^a   Park, Hae Joon ^a  

^a Mogam Biotechnology Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

5 UTR; Core protein; HCV; Nucleocapsid particle; Virion assembly

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID; RIBONUCLEASE; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS PARTICLE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HEPACIVIRUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NUCLEOCAPSID; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 33750360303     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2006.07.008     Document Type: Article

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