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Biochemical and structural analysis of the NS5B RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of the hepatitis C virus.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 May 2000
Lohmann V, Roos A, Körner F, Koch J O, Bartenschlager R
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV), the major causative agent of chronic and sporadic non-A, non-B hepatitis worldwide, is a distinct member of the Flaviviridae virus family. These viruses have in common a plus-strand RNA genome that is replicated in the cytoplasm of the infected cell via minus-strand RNA intermediates. Owing to the lack of reliable cell culture systems and convenient animal models for HCV, the mechanisms...
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