The ins and outs of hepatitis C virus entry and assembly

BD Lindenbach, CM Rice - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013 - nature.com
Hepatitis C virus, a major human pathogen, produces infectious virus particles with several
unique features, such as an ability to interact with serum lipoproteins, a dizzyingly …

Hepatitis C virus RNA replication and assembly: living on the fat of the land

D Paul, V Madan, R Bartenschlager - Cell host & microbe, 2014 - cell.com
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major global health burden accounting for around 170 million
chronic infections worldwide. Although highly potent direct-acting antiviral drugs to treat …

Picornavirus morphogenesis

P Jiang, Y Liu, HC Ma, AV Paul… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
The Picornaviridae represent a large family of small plus-strand RNA viruses that cause a
bewildering array of important human and animal diseases. Morphogenesis is the least …

Evidence for novel hepaciviruses in rodents

JF Drexler, VM Corman, MA Müller… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is among the most relevant causes of liver cirrhosis and
hepatocellular carcinoma. Research is complicated by a lack of accessible small animal …

Completion of the entire hepatitis C virus life cycle in genetically humanized mice

M Dorner, JA Horwitz, BM Donovan, RN Labitt… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
More than 130 million people worldwide chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) are
at risk of developing severe liver disease. Antiviral treatments are only partially effective …

Apolipoprotein E and viral infection: Risks and Mechanisms

F Chen, Q Ke, W Wei, L Cui, Y Wang - Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2023 - cell.com
Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) is a multifunctional protein critical for lipid metabolism and
cholesterol homeostasis. In addition to being a well-known genetic determinant of both …

[PDF][PDF] Role of low‐density lipoprotein receptor in the hepatitis C virus life cycle

A Albecka, S Belouzard, AO de Beeck… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) particles are known to be in complex with lipoproteins. As a result of
this interaction, the low‐density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor (LDLR) has been proposed as a …

Hepatitis C virus, cholesterol and lipoproteins—impact for the viral life cycle and pathogenesis of liver disease

DJ Felmlee, ML Hafirassou, M Lefevre, TF Baumert… - Viruses, 2013 - mdpi.com
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a leading cause of chronic liver disease, including chronic
hepatitis, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatitis C infection associates …

Productive hepatitis C virus infection of stem cell-derived hepatocytes reveals a critical transition to viral permissiveness during differentiation

X Wu, JM Robotham, E Lee, S Dalton… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Primary human hepatocytes isolated from patient biopsies represent the most
physiologically relevant cell culture model for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, but these …

Virion assembly and release

BD Lindenbach - Hepatitis C Virus: From Molecular Virology to Antiviral …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) particles exhibit several unusual properties that are not
found in other enveloped RNA viruses, most notably their low buoyant density and …