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In vivo study of the HC-TN strain of hepatitis C virus recovered from a patient with fulminant hepatitis: RNA transcripts of a molecular clone (pHC-TN) are infectious in chimpanzees but not in Huh7.5 cells

Akito Sakai, Shingo Takikawa, Robert Thimme, Jean-Christophe Meunier, Hans Christian Spangenberg, Sugantha Govindarajan, Patrizia Farci, Suzanne U. Emerson, Francis V. Chisari, Robert H. Purcell …

JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, 81(13) 7208-7219, Jul, 2007
The p7 polypeptide of hepatitis C virus is critical for infectivity and contains functionally important genotype-specific sequences

A Sakai, MS St Claire, K Faulk, S Govindarajan, SU Emerson, RH Purcell, J Bukh

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 100(20) 11646-11651, Sep, 2003
Quasispecies of hepatitis C virus in serum and in three different parts of the liver of patients with chronic hepatitis

A Sakai, S Kaneko, M Honda, E Matsushita, K Kobayashi

HEPATOLOGY, 30(2) 556-561, Aug, 1999