Hepatitis C virus NS3/4A protease inhibits complement activation by cleaving complement component 4.

Hepatitis C virus NS3/4A protease inhibits complement activation by cleaving complement component 4.

BACKGROUND: It has been hypothesized that persistent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is mediated in part by viral proteins that abrogate the host immune response, including the complement system, but the precise mechanisms are not well understood. We investigated whether HCV proteins are involved...

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Main Authors: Seiichi Mawatari, Hirofumi Uto, Akio Ido, Kenji Nakashima, Tetsuro Suzuki, Shuji Kanmura, Kotaro Kumagai, Kohei Oda, Kazuaki Tabu, Tsutomu Tamai, Akihiro Moriuchi, Makoto Oketani, Yuko Shimada, Masayuki Sudoh, Ikuo Shoji, Hirohito Tsubouchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3861371?pdf=render

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