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Alanine scanning of the hepatitis C virus core protein reveals numerous residues essential for production of infectious virus.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 2007
Murray Catherine L, Jones Christopher T, Tassello Jodie, Rice Charles M
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an important human pathogen affecting an estimated 3% of the world's population. Recent advances have enabled in vitro propagation of the virus and allow assembly and egress to be investigated for the first time. As a component of the virion, the HCV core protein likely functions primarily in infectious virus production, although little is known about the determinants of this activity....
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