The hepatitis C virus NS5A protein and response to interferon α: Mutational analyses in patients with chronic HCV genotype 3a infection from India

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-21

  Goyal, Ankur ^a,b,c   Hofmann, Wolf P ^d   Hermann, Eva ^d   Traver, Stella ^d   Hissar, Syed S ^a   Arora, Naveen ^b   Blum, Hubert E ^e   Zeuzem, Stefan ^d   Sarrazin, Christoph ^d   Sarin, Shiv K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

aa Variations; HCV; Interferon ; ISDR; NS5A

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2B INTERFERON; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5A; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; PROTEIN KINASE; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RIBAVIRIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 33846693724     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00430-006-0024-z     Document Type: Article

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