Identification of a class of HCV inhibitors directed against the nonstructural protein NS4B

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Cho, Nam Joon ^a,b   Dvory Sobol, Hadas ^a   Lee, Choongho ^a   Cho, Sang Joon ^c   Bryson, Paul ^a   Masek, Marilyn ^a   Elazar, Menashe ^a   Frank, Curtis W ^b   Glenn, Jeffrey S ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c Park Systems Corporation   (South Korea)

^d VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 4B; PROTEIN 4BAH2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPLICATION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LIPID VESICLE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE; RNA REPLICATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AMINO ACIDS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CELL LINE; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; UNILAMELLAR LIPOSOMES; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 77953016640     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3000331     Document Type: Article

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