The hepatitis C virus NS2/3 protease

Current Issues in Molecular Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-70

  Welbourn, Sarah ^a   Pause, Arnim ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5A; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOST CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRAL GENETICS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; PAN;

EID: 33846424965     PISSN: 14673037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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