Acute Hepatitis C Virus Structural Gene Sequences as Predictors of Persistent Viremia: Hypervariable Region 1 as a Decoy
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Hypervariable region 1 of hepatitis C virus: immunological decoy or biologically relevant domain?
The hypervariable region 1 (HVR1) of the E2 protein of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is highly heterogeneous and is responsible for significant inter- and intra-individual variation of the infecting virus, which may represent an important pathogenetic mechanism leading to escape and persistent infection. Moreover, a binding site for neutralizing antibodies (Ab) has been allegedly identified in this r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Virology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0022-538X,1098-5514
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.4.2938-2946.1999