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Establishment of a cell-based assay system for hepatitis C virus serine protease and its primary applications.
World journal of gastroenterology - 1 Nov 2003
Mao Hong-Xia, Lan Shui-Yun, Hu Yun-Wen, Xiang Li, Yuan Zheng-Hong
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AIM: To establish an efficient, sensitive, cell-based assay system for NS3 serine protease in an effort to study further the property of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and develop new antiviral agents. METHODS: We constructed pCI-neo-NS3/4A-SEAP chimeric plasmid, in which the secreted alkaline phosphatase (SEAP) was fused in-frame to the downstream of NS4A/4B cleavage site. The protease activity of NS3 was reflected by...
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