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. 2008 Jul 2;3(7):e2580. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002580

Figure 7. GBV-C NS5A peptides increase the release of stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF-1).

Figure 7

SDF-1 release into culture supernatants was significantly greater in cell lines expressing GBV-C NS5A peptides 152–165, 152–167 and 152–181 compared to the vector control (VC) or frame shift (FS) cell lines after 7 days in culture (* p<0.01 for all; panel A). Jurkat cells expressing full-length NS5A (1–414), the 152–167 peptide and the S158E mutant peptide also induced significantly more SDF-1 than did cells expressing VC, FS or the S158A and S158G peptides (B; * p<0.02 for all on day 7).