Natural genetic engineering of hepatitis C virus NS5A for immune system counterattack

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1178, Issue , 2009, Pages 173-185

  El Hefnawi, Mahmoud M ^a   El Behaidy, Wessam H ^b   Youssif, Aliaa A ^b   Ghalwash, Atek Z ^b   El Housseiny, Lamya A ^c   Zada, Suher ^d  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b HCI LAB   (Egypt)

^c Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

^d The American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C virus; Immune system counteraction; In silico motif prediction; Integrative bioinformatics from structure to function; Natural genetic engineering; Nonstructural 5A protein (NS5A); Protein protein motif interaction prediction

Indexed keywords

SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 70350437791     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05003.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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