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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-1-14
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Polyprotein processing of plus-strand RNA viruses is important in the regulation of gene production and replication. The core protein of hepatitis C virus (HCV), constructing the viral particle, is processed from its precursor polyprotein and observed as two forms, p23 and p21. Production of p21 by cleavage at the C-terminus of p23 is considered crucial to viral assembly and replication. In this study, this processing step was compared between clones isolated from two patients with fulminant hepatitis and from five patients with chronic hepatitis by an in vitro translation assay and cell transfection assay. The p21 core protein was predominant from the clone isolated from one of the fulminant hepatitis patient (p21 core protein production was 65.98%), while p23 was abundant with clones from five chronic hepatitis patients (p21 core protein production was 7.11+/-1.62%) and clone from another fulminant hepatitis patient (p21 core protein production was 13.36%). Investigations with chimeric and mutation-introduced constructs revealed that four amino acid residues in the C-terminus of the core region are responsible for this difference. The data suggest that core protein processing is regulated by C-terminus mutations.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0146-6615
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
69
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
357-66
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Gene Expression Regulation, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Hepacivirus, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Hepatitis C, Chronic, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Liver Failure, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Protein Biosynthesis, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Protein Precursors, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Protein Processing, Post-Translational, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:12526046-Viral Core Proteins
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Processing of hepatitis C virus core protein is regulated by its C-terminal sequence.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Microbiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't