ATP dependent NS3 helicase interaction with RNA: insights from molecular simulations
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ATP dependent NS3 helicase interaction with RNA: insights from molecular simulations
Non-structural protein 3 (NS3) helicase from hepatitis C virus is an enzyme that unwinds and translocates along nucleic acids with an ATP-dependent mechanism and has a key role in the replication of the viral RNA. An inchworm-like mechanism for translocation has been proposed based on crystal structures and single molecule experiments. We here perform atomistic molecular dynamics in explicit so...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0305-1048,1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv872