Structure and dynamics of the N-terminal half of hepatitis C virus core protein: An intrinsically unstructured protein

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 378, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-31

  Duvignaud, Jean Baptiste ^a,b   Savard, Christian ^b   Fromentin, Rémi ^b   Majeau, Nathalie ^b   Leclerc, Denis ^b   Gagné, Stéphane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Backbone dynamics; Disordered protein; HCV; Hepacivirus; IUP; NMR relaxation; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Structural protein; Viral nucleocapsid

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HEPACIVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 56949094892     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.10.141     Document Type: Article

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