Novel nucleotide and amino acid covariation between the 5′UTR and the NS2/NS3 proteins of hepatitis C virus: Bioinformatic and functional analyses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Sun, Hung Yu ^a   Ou, Nai Ying ^a   Wang, Shainn Wei ^a   Liu, Wen Chun ^b   Cheng, Ting Fang ^a   Shr, Shiou Jiuan ^c   Sun, Koun Tem ^c   Chang, Ting Tsung ^a,d   Young, Kung Chia ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5B; NUCLEOTIDE; NS 5 PROTEIN, HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NS-5 PROTEIN, HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NS2 PROTEIN, HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NS3 PROTEIN, HEPATITIS C VIRUS; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA MINING; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPLICON; TUMOR CELL LINE;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACIDS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATA MINING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; REPLICON; RNA, VIRAL; SOFTWARE; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 80053243121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025530     Document Type: Article

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