The hepatitis C viral NS3 protein is a processive DNA helicase with cofactor enhanced RNA unwinding.

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Published in EMBO J on March 01, 2002

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Phillip S Pang1, Eckhard Jankowsky, Paul J Planet, Anna Marie Pyle

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1: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.

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