Coordination of Hepatitis C Virus Assembly by Distinct Regulatory Regions in Nonstructural Protein 5A

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Zayas, Margarita ^a   Long, Gang ^a,b   Madan, Vanesa ^a   Bartenschlager, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE PASTEUR OF SHANGHAI   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOPHILIN; ALANINE; BETA ACTIN; CORE PROTEIN; GENOMIC RNA; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCOPROTEIN E2; LUCIFERASE; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5A; PROTEINASE K; RENILLA LUCIFERIN 2 MONOOXYGENASE; SERINE; VIRUS RNA; NS-5 PROTEIN, HEPATITIS C VIRUS; VIRAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMILUMINESCENCE IMMUNOASSAY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DILUTION; ELECTROPORATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA REPLICATION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS PARTICLE; WESTERN BLOTTING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEPACIVIRUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; ELECTROPORATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84956722368     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005376     Document Type: Article

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