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Conserved C-terminal threonine of hepatitis C virus NS3 regulates autoproteolysis and prevents product inhibition.
Journal of virology - 1 Jan 2004
Wang Wenyan, Lahser Frederick C, Yi MinKyung, Wright-Minogue Jacquelyn, Xia Ellen, Weber Patricia C, Lemon Stanley M, Malcolm Bruce A
Abstract excerpt
Inspection of over 250 hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome sequences shows that a threonine is strictly conserved at the P1 position in the NS3-NS4A (NS3-4A) autoproteolysis junction, while a cysteine is maintained as the P1 residue in all of the putative trans cleavage sites (NS4A-4B, NS4B-5A, and NS5A-5B). To understand why T631 is conserved at the NS3-4A junction of HCV, a series of in vitro...
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