Compensatory mutations in NS3 and NS5A proteins enhance the virus production capability of hepatitis C reporter virus

Virus Research

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-73

  Han, Qingxia ^a,b   Xu, Chunlian ^a,b   Wu, Chunchen ^a   Zhu, Wenbo ^a,b   Yang, Rongge ^a   Chen, Xinwen ^a  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive Mutation; Assembly; HCV; Hepatitis C virus; Reporter Virus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HELICASE; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5A; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRION; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TITRATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CELL LINE; GENOME, VIRAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 69449083296     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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