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Investigation of a role for lysine residues in non-structural proteins 2 and 2/3 of the hepatitis C virus for their degradation and virus assembly.
The Journal of general virology - 1 May 2009
Welbourn Sarah, Jirasko Vlastimil, Breton Valérie, Reiss Simon, Penin Francois, Bartenschlager Ralf, Pause Arnim
Abstract excerpt
It has been demonstrated that both uncleaved, enzymitically inactive NS2/3 and cleaved NS2 proteins are rapidly degraded upon expression in cells, phenomena described to be blocked by the addition of proteasome inhibitors. As this degradation and its regulation potentially constitute an important strategy of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) to regulate the levels of its non-structural proteins, we further investigated...
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