Role of the hepatitis C virus core+1 open reading frame and core cis-acting RNA elements in viral RNA translation and replication

Journal of Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 11503-11515

  Vassilaki, Niki ^a,b   Friebe, Peter ^a,e   Meuleman, Philipe ^c   Kallis, Stephanie ^a   Kaul, Artur ^a   Paranhos Baccalà, Glaucia ^d   Leroux Roels, Geert ^c   Mavromara, Penelope ^b   Bartenschlager, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d Emerging Pathogens Laboratory   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA REPLICATION; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, SCID; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MUS;

EID: 56449110274     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01640-08     Document Type: Article

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