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SUBMITTER: Cristofari G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC419467 | biostudies-literature | 2004
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cristofari Gaël G Ivanyi-Nagy Roland R Gabus Caroline C Boulant Steeve S Lavergne Jean-Pierre JP Penin François F Darlix Jean-Luc JL
Nucleic acids research 20040511 8
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an important human pathogen causing chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. HCV is an enveloped virus with a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genome encoding a single polyprotein that is processed to generate viral proteins. Several hundred molecules of the structural Core protein are thought to coat the genome in the viral particle, as do nucleocapsid (NC) protein molecules in Retroviruses, another class of enveloped viruses containing ...[more]