Structural and functional studies of nonstructural protein 2 of the hepatitis C virus reveal its key role as organizer of virion assembly.

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Published in PLoS Pathog on December 16, 2010

Authors

Vlastimil Jirasko1, Roland Montserret, Ji Young Lee, Jérôme Gouttenoire, Darius Moradpour, Francois Penin, Ralf Bartenschlager

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

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