Plugging the holes in hepatitis C virus antiviral therapy
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Plugging the holes in hepatitis C virus antiviral therapy.
A growing number of RNA viruses are now known to depend on virus-encoded ion channels for efficient production of infectious virions and, in some cases, for the subsequent infection of naı̈ve cells. So-called viroporins are small hydrophobic proteins, usually less than 100 aa in length, and typically contain 1 or 2 transmembrane domains (TMDs); oligomerization is therefore necessary for the form...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906760106