Crystal structure of the NS3 protease-helicase from dengue virus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 173-183

  Luo, Dahai ^a,b   Xu, Ting ^b   Hunke, Cornelia ^a   Grüber, Gerhard ^a   Vasudevan, Subhash G ^b   Lescar, Julien ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NOVARTIS INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL DISEASES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2B; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS VACCINE;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENGUE VIRUS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FLAVIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RNA BINDING; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; VACCINATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DENGUE VIRUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

DENGUE VIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 37349023165     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01788-07     Document Type: Article

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