Hepatitis C Virus I Cellular and Molecular Virology

This volume is composed of chapters that review important fundamental aspects of HCV biology and disease pathogenesis including, for example, the discovery and identification of the HCV genome, early virus-cell interactions including identification of var

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Tatsuo Miyamura • Stanley M. Lemon • Christopher M. Walker • Takaji Wakita Editors

Hepatitis C Virus I Cellular and Molecular Virology

Editors Tatsuo Miyamura National Institute of Infectious Diseases Tokyo, Japan

Christopher M. Walker Center for Vaccines and Immunity The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus, Ohio USA

Stanley M. Lemon Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA Takaji Wakita National Institute of Infectious Diseases Tokyo, Japan

ISBN 978-4-431-56096-8 ISBN 978-4-431-56098-2 DOI 10.1007/978-4-431-56098-2

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Contents

Part I

Hepatitis C Virus

Towards the Control of Hepatitis C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Houghton

3

Hepatitis C Virus Genotypes and Their Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tadasu Shin-I, Masaya Sugiyama, and Masashi Mizokami

15

The Structure of HCV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Marcotrigiano and Maria Teresa Catanese

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Part II

The Viral Life Cycle

Cell Culture Systems for Propagation of HCV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Takaji Wakita

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HCV Receptors and Virus Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rajiv G. Tawar, Catherine Schuster, and Thomas F. Baumert

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Structural Proteins of HCV and Biological Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Kohji Moriishi and Yoshiharu Matsuura Role of Nonstructural Proteins in HCV Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Tetsuro Suzuki and Ryosuke Suzuki The HCV Replicase Complex and Viral RNA Synthesis . . . . . . .