A cooperative interaction between nontranslated RNA sequences and NS5A protein promotes in vivo fitness of a chimeric hepatitis C/GB virus B

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Warter, Lucile ^a,e   Cohen, Lisette ^a   Benureau, Yann ^a   Chavez, Deborah ^b   Yang, Yan ^c,f   Bodola, Francis ^c   Lemon, Stanley M ^c   Traboni, Cinzia ^d,g   Lanford, Robert E ^b   Martin, Annette ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^d IRBM   (Italy)

^e AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^g Okairos   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5A; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; HEPATITIS GB VIRUS B; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REPLICON; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS GB VIRUS B; PRIMATES;

EID: 84887212388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004419     Document Type: Article

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