Internal initiation stimulates production of p8 minicore, a member of a newly discovered family of hepatitis C virus core protein isoforms

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3104-3114

  Eng, Francis J ^a   Walewski, Jose L ^a   Klepper, Arielle L ^a   Fishman, Sarah L ^a   Desai, Suresh M ^b   McMullan, Laura K ^c,d   Evans, Matthew J ^a,c   Rice, Charles M ^c   Branch, Andrea D ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; HEPATITIS C VIRUS P8 MINICORE PROTEIN; PROTEIN P21; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ISOPROTEIN; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN, HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CODON; GENE MUTATION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPLICON; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; VIRUS CORE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

CODON, INITIATOR; HEPACIVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 63149086110     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01679-08     Document Type: Article

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