Essential role of cyclophilin A for hepatitis C virus replication and virus production and possible link to polyprotein cleavage kinetics.

Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites and therefore their replication completely depends on host cell factors. In case of the hepatitis C virus (HCV), a positive-strand RNA virus that in the majority of infections establishes persistence, cyclophilins are considered to play an important role...

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Main Authors: Artur Kaul, Sarah Stauffer, Carola Berger, Thomas Pertel, Jennifer Schmitt, Stephanie Kallis, Margarita Zayas, Volker Lohmann, Jeremy Luban, Ralf Bartenschlager
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-08-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2718831?pdf=render