Functional properties of a 16 kDa protein translated from an alternative open reading frame of the core-encoding genomic region of hepatitis C virus

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2299-2306

  Basu, Arnab ^a   Steele, Robert ^a   Ray, Ranjit ^a,b   Ray, Ratna B ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; F PROTEIN; MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P53; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1A; CYCLINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TELOMERASE; VIRUS FUSION PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO GROWTH; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; VIRUS GENOME;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P21; CYCLINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TELOMERASE; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRAL FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 4043094150     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80028-0     Document Type: Article

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