Hepatitis C Virus RNA Replication Depends on Specific Cis- and Trans-Acting Activities of Viral Nonstructural Proteins
Kazakov T, Yang F, Ramanathan HN, Kohlway A, Diamond MS, Lindenbach BD. Hepatitis C Virus RNA Replication Depends on Specific Cis- and Trans-Acting Activities of Viral Nonstructural Proteins. PLOS Pathogens 2015, 11: e1004817. PMID: 25875808, PMCID: PMC4395149, DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004817.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRNA bindingRNA replicationPositive-strand RNA virus replicationComplementation group analysisPositive-strand RNA virusesPolymerase activityRNA virus replicationNS3 helicase domainViral nonstructural proteinsCis-acting roleGene functionVirus RNA replicationHelicase domainSpecific cisReplicase geneGenome replicationReplicase assemblyLethal mutationsNonstructural genesNTPase activityStudy of cisNonstructural proteinsRNA virusesSynthetic mRNAFunctional linkage