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A structurally flexible and antigenically variable N-terminal domain of the hepatitis C virus E2/NS1 protein: implication for an escape from antibody.
Virology - 1 Jul 1993
Taniguchi S, Okamoto H, Sakamoto M, Kojima M, Tsuda F, Tanaka T, Munekata E, Muchmore E E, Peterson D A, Mishiro S
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Hepatitis C virus persists in most infected hosts, and causes chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and/or hepatocellular carcinoma in humans. During the infection the RNA genome of hepatitis C virus undergoes frequent missense mutations at one or two "hypervariable" regions within a presumptive envelope gene (Okamoto et al., 1992, Virology 190, 894-899; Ogata et al., 1991, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88,...
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