A novel hepacivirus with an unusually long and intrinsically disordered ns5a protein in a wild old world primate

Journal of Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 8971-8981

  Lauck, Michael ^a   Sibley, Samuel D ^b   Lara, James ^c   Purdy, Michael A ^c   Khudyakov, Yury ^c   Hyeroba, David ^d   Tumukunde, Alex ^d   Weny, Geoffrey ^d   Switzer, William M ^c   Chapman, Colin A ^e   Hughes, Austin L ^f   Friedrich, Thomas C ^b,g   O'Connor, David H ^a,g   Goldberg, Tony L ^b,d,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5A;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COLOBINAE; COLOBUS GUEREZA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NS5A GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS GENOME; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOBUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GB VIRUS B; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS C; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE DISEASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UGANDA; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84881246291     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00888-13     Document Type: Article

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