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Hepatitis C Virus

Reports summarize hepatitis C virus research from the United States, Greece and South Korea

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, January 15th, 2007

Research conducted in the United States, Greece and South Korea has updated our knowledge about hepatitis C virus.

Study 1: According to a study from the United States, hepatitis C virus (HCV) nonstructural protein 5A (NS5A) is an RNA-binding protein.

"HCV nonstructural protein 5A (NS5A) has been shown to antagonize numerous cellular pathways, including the antiviral interferon-alpha response. However, the capacity of this protein to interact with the viral polymerase suggests a more direct role for NS5A in genome replication."

"In this study," wrote L.Y. Huang and colleagues, Penn State University, "we employed two bacterially...

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