Article
New details of HCV NS3/4A proteinase functionality revealed by a high-throughput cleavage assay.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Shiryaev Sergey A, Thomsen Elliot R, Cieplak Piotr, Chudin Eugene, Cheltsov Anton V, Chee Mark S, Kozlov Igor A, Strongin Alex Y
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome encodes a long polyprotein, which is processed by host cell and viral proteases to the individual structural and non-structural (NS) proteins. HCV NS3/4A serine proteinase (NS3/4A) is a non-covalent heterodimer of the N-terminal, ∼180-residue portion of the 631-residue NS3 protein with the NS4A co-factor. NS3/4A cleaves the polyprotein sequence at four specific...
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