Article
Hepatitis C virus p7 and NS2 proteins are essential for production of infectious virus.
Journal of virology - 1 Aug 2007
Jones Christopher T, Murray Catherine L, Eastman Dawnnica K, Tassello Jodie, Rice Charles M
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a global health concern affecting an estimated 3% of the world's population. Recently, cell culture systems have been established, allowing recapitulation of the complete virus life cycle for the first time. Since the HCV proteins p7 and NS2 are not predicted to be major components of the virion, nor are they required for RNA replication, we investigated whether they might...
Topics
- Cells, Cultured
- Conserved Sequence
- Genes, Reporter
- Hepacivirus
- Humans
- Ion Channels
- Luciferases
- Mutation
- Viral Nonstructural Proteins
- Viral Proteins
