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Selection for Con1 derivatives that could utilize the entire H77 NS4B or hybrid Con1-H77 NS4B proteins yielded mutants containing single amino acid substitutions in NS3 and NS4A. The second-site mutations in NS3 partially restored the replication of Con1 chimeras containing the N-terminal or transmembrane domains of H77 NS4B. In contrast, the deleterious H77-specific sequences in the C terminus of NS4B, which mapped to a cluster of four amino acids, were completely suppressed by second-site substitutions in NS3. Collectively, these results provide the first evidence for a genetic interaction between NS4B and NS3 important for productive HCV RNA replication.</jats:p>","journal":"Journal of Virology","year":2008,"id":35117,"datarank":2.509875134007471,"base_score":3.828641396489095,"endowment":3.828641396489095,"self_citation_contribution":0.5742962094733643,"citation_network_contribution":1.9355789245341068,"self_endowment_contribution":0.5742962094733643,"citer_contribution":1.9355789245341068,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":45,"citer_count":44,"citers_with_citation_signal":41,"citers_with_endowment":41,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":180511,"name":"Keril J. 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