VAPC, an human endogenous inhibitor for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, is intrinsically unstructured but forms a "fuzzy complex" with HCV NS5B.

Nearly 200 million people are infected by hepatitis C virus (HCV) worldwide. For replicating the HCV genome, the membrane-associated machinery needs to be formed by both HCV non-structural proteins (including NS5B) and human host factors such as VAPB. Recently, the 99-residue VAPC, a splicing varian...

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Main Authors: Shaveta Goyal, Garvita Gupta, Haina Qin, Megha Haridas Upadya, Yee Joo Tan, Vincent T K Chow, Jianxing Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3398895?pdf=render