TABLE 1.
Cholesterol and phospholipid contents of HCVcc and cells
| Cell type or virus | Content (nmol/mg of protein)a
|
Chol/PL ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chol | PL | ||
| Cells | |||
| Uninfected | 105.9 ± 10.4 | 253.2 ± 10.6 | 0.42 |
| JFH-1 infected | 116.5 ± 10.0 | 292.0 ± 18.4 | 0.40 |
| Virus | |||
| JFH-1 | 43.6 ± 2.4 | 33.8 ± 1.8 | 1.29 |
| J6/JFH-1b | 28.7 ± 4.8 | 22.7 ± 2.9 | 1.26 |
a
Data are averages of three independent measurements ± standard deviations. Chol, cholesterol; PL, phospholipids.
b
J6/JFH1 virus was produced from the pJ6/N2X-JFH1 construct and has structural proteins from the J6CF strain.