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Identification of a class of HCV inhibitors directed against the nonstructural protein NS4B.
Science translational medicine - 20 Jan 2010
Cho Nam-Joon, Dvory-Sobol Hadas, Lee Choongho, Cho Sang-Joon, Bryson Paul, Masek Marilyn, Elazar Menashe, Frank Curtis W, Glenn Jeffrey S
Abstract excerpt
New classes of drugs are needed to combat hepatitis C virus (HCV), an important worldwide cause of liver disease. We describe an activity of a key domain, an amphipathic helix we termed 4BAH2, within a specific HCV nonstructural protein, NS4B. In addition to its proposed role in viral replication, we validate 4BAH2 as essential for HCV genome replication and identify first-generation small-molecule inhibitors of...
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