A Hopeful Fold for Hepatitis C (VIDEO)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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The structure of Hepatitis C E2 glycoprotein is presented, highlighting its architecture, glycan coat, recognition by broadly neutralizing antibody and binding to CD81 receptor. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 29 November, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Leopold Kong at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Hepatitis C Virus E2 Envelope Glycoprotein Core Structure."

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[Video courtesy of Christina Corbaci and Leopold Kong]

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