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Phylogenetic conservation of the stem-loop III structure of the 5' untranslated region of Hepatitis C virus RNA among natural variants in samples collected from Southern India.
Archives of virology - 1 May 2004
Bhattacharyya S, Mapa K, Prabhavathi S, Sudhamani S R, Menon P K, John K P J, Shivaram C, Amarnath S, Das S
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The stem-loop III (SLIII) structure within the 5' untranslated region has been shown to be critical for internal initiation of translation of Hepatitis C virus (HCV). Using 'Single Strand Conformation Polymorphism (SSCP)' of the SLIII region we have investigated for natural mutations and demonstr...
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