The hepatitis C virus core protein contains a BH3 domain that regulates apoptosis through specific interaction with human Mcl-1

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 9993-10006

  Mohd Ismail, Nur Khairiah ^a,b   Deng, Lin ^c   Sukumaran, Sunil Kumar ^a   Yu, Victor C ^a,d   Hotta, Hak ^c   Tan, Yee Joo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BH3 PROTEIN; CORE PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL W; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN MCL 1; PROTEIN NOXA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS MUTANT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CELL LINE; CYCLIN D1; CYTOCHROMES C; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 70349295222     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00509-09     Document Type: Article

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