Article
[Hepatitis C virus].
La Revue du praticien - 15 May 2000
Querenghi F, Zoulim F
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a small enveloped virus whose genome is a RNA molecule encoding a polyprotein that is processed by cellular and viral proteases to produce the 3 structural proteins (the core protein C and the 2 envelope proteins E1 and E2) and the 6 nonstructural proteins (NS2, NS3, NS4A, NS4B, NS5A and NS5B). The HCV genome exhibits a significant genetic heterogeneity. HCV isolates can be divided into...
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