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Essential role of cyclophilin A for hepatitis C virus replication and virus production and possible link to polyprotein cleavage kinetics.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Aug 2009
Kaul Artur, Stauffer Sarah, Berger Carola, Pertel Thomas, Schmitt Jennifer, Kallis Stephanie, Zayas Margarita, Lopez Margarita Zayas, Lohmann Volker, Luban Jeremy, Bartenschlager Ralf
Abstract excerpt
Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites and therefore their replication completely depends on host cell factors. In case of the hepatitis C virus (HCV), a positive-strand RNA virus that in the majority of infections establishes persistence, cyclophilins are considered to play an important role in RNA replication. Subsequent to the observation that cyclosporines, known to sequester cyclophilins by direct...
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