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Identification of amino acid variants in the hepatitis C virus non-structural protein 4A.
The Tohoku journal of experimental medicine - 1 Jul 2009
Bermúdez-Aguirre Alejandro Daniel, Padilla-Noriega Luis, Zenteno Edgar, Reyes-Leyva Julio
Abstract excerpt
Chronic infections by hepatitis C virus (HCV) are a major cause of cirrhosis and hepatic cancer. The replication of HCV involves translation and proteolytic processing of polyproteins. The HCV single-stranded RNA encodes a single polyprotein of C/E1/E2/p7/NS2/NS3/NS4A/NS4B/NS5A/NS5B. The structural proteins, C, E1, E2, and p7, arise from the viral polyprotein by host proteases. Cleavage at the non-structural...
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