Hepatitis C virus: Morphogenesis, infection and therapy

Table 1 Overview of the size of hepatitis C virus proteins

Protein	No. of aa	aa position n ref. seq.	MW of protein, kDa
Core immature	191	1-191	23
Core mature	174	1-174	21
F protein of ARF protein	126-161		Approximately 16-17
E1	192	192-383	35
E2	363	384-746	70
p7	63	747-809	7
NS2	217	810-1026	21
NS3	631	1027-1657	70
NS4A	54	1658-1711	4
NS4B	261	1712-1972	27
NS5A	448	1973-2420	56
NS5B	591	2421-3011	66

No. of aa: Number of amino acid; MW: Molecular weight; kDa: KiloDalton; ref.seq.: Reference sequence (HCV strain H77 ; accession number NC_0041).