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La Protein Required for Internal Ribosome Entry Site–Directed Translation Is a Potential Therapeutic Target for Hepatitis C Virus Replication
Author(s) -
Takayoshi Shirasaki,
Masao Honda,
Hideki Mizuno,
Tetsuro Shimakami,
Hikari Okada,
Yoshio Sakai,
Seishi Murakami,
Takaji Wakita,
Shuichi Kaneko
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69
H-Index - 252
eISSN - 1537-6613
pISSN - 0022-1899
DOI - 10.1086/653081
Subject(s) - internal ribosome entry site , virology , telomerase , viral replication , biology , hepatitis c virus , microbiology and biotechnology , rna , ns2 3 protease , translation (biology) , virus , messenger rna , genetics , gene
Translation of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is mediated by an internal ribosome entry site (IRES). Here, we analyzed the functional relevance of La protein for replication of HCV using an infectious HCV clone, JFH-1.

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