Abstract
Human hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects hepatocytes and the viral infection often develops into chronic disease, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (Saito et al. 1990; Plagemann 1991; Ruiz et al. 1992). Currently HCV infections account for about 80% of posttransfusion hepatitis worldwide. To date HCV has not been successfully grown in any cultured cells (Shimizu et al. 1993) which precludes the biological studies of this virus. The discovery of the human HCV stems from an unprecedented use of molecular cloning techniques rather than by the conventional method of virus isolation (Choo et al. 1989). Nucleic acids extracted from the sera of chimpanzees infected with infectious non-A, non-B hepatitis plasma were usedto prepare a λ gt11 library which was then immunoscreened with non-A, non-B hepatitis serum (Choo et al. 1989). The viral RNA genome cloned as a cDNA was characterized by nucleotide sequence determination to uncover the genetic order of the coding potential. Further comparison of the complete HCV genome to other known viral genomes placed this virus in the family of Flaviviridae (Miller and Purcell 1990; Houghton et al. 1991). Members of this virus group include human flaviviruses (e.g., Yellow fever virus, Dengue virus and St. Louis encephalitis virus) and animal pestiviruses (e.g., bovine viral diarrhea virus and hog cholera virus).
Keywords
- Internal Ribosome Entry Site
- Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus
- InfectiOUs Bronchitis VIrUS
- Chloramphenicol Acetyl Transferase
- Internal Ribosome Entry Site Element
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Wang, C., Siddiqui, A. (1995). Structure and Function of the Hepatitis C Virus Internal Ribosome Entry Site. In: Sarnow, P. (eds) Cap-Independent Translation. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79663-0_5
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