Characterization of hepatitis C virus core protein multimerization and membrane envelopment: Revelation of a cascade of core-membrane interactions

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 9923-9939

  Ai, Li Shuang ^a   Lee, Yu Wen ^b   Chen, Steve S L ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEINASE K;

ARTICLE; DNA TRANSFECTION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; VIRUS MUTATION;

ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; ENDOSOMES; EPITOPES; HUMANS; KETONES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 70349284497     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00066-09     Document Type: Article

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