title: Hepatitis A virus proteins.
abstract: The RNA genome of hepatitis A virus (HAV) shares common characteristics of the picornavirus family. However, the nucleotide or amino acid sequences are distantly related with other members of the family. Like other picornaviruses, HAV proteins are cleaved from a large polyprotein (PO), but the processing and some products are quite different. The 3C protein is the sole processing enzyme, and the primary cleavage takes place at the 2A/2B site. Several VP1-2A sites are proposed. In some strains, the intermediate VP1-2A polypeptides are assembled in the virion. The VP4 is very small and not detected in the mature virion. Some mutations in 2B, 2C and 3A proteins are identified to enhance viral replication or to induce cytopathogenic effects in the viruses adapted to cell cultures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Viral Disease and Vaccine Control, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan. tsuka@nih.go.jp
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Totsuka
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Moritsugu
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D016679:Genome, Viral; D006507:Hepatovirus / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D014764:Viral Proteins