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Lack of clinical significance of variability in the internal ribosome entry site of hepatitis C virus.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Mar 2004
Thelu Marie-Ange, Drouet Emmanuel, Hilleret Marie-Noëlle, Zarski Jean-Pierre
Abstract excerpt
The extreme 5'-proximal sequence of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome including the 5' non-coding region (5'NCR) of 341 nucleotide long and the first 30 nucleotides of the core region is highly conserved among different HCV genotypes. It contains a segment termed Internal Ribosome Entry Site (IRES) that regulates the cap-independent translation of HCV-RNA to polyprotein. Sequence variability in this region has...
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