molecules Article Inhibitor Development against p7 Channel in Hepatitis C Virus Shukun Wei 1,2,†, Xiaoyou Hu 2,3,†, Lingyu Du 1, Linlin Zhao 1,4, Hongjuan Xue 5, Chaolun Liu 6, James J. Chou 4, Jin Zhong 2,3,6, Yimin Tong 3,*, Shuqing Wang 7,* and Bo OuYang 1,2,* 1 State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 333 Haike Road, Shanghai 201203, China;
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[email protected] (B.O.) † This authors contributed equally. Abstract: Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is the key cause of chronic and severe liver diseases. The recent direct-acting antiviral agents have shown the clinical success on HCV-related diseases, but the rapid HCV mutations of the virus highlight the sustaining necessity to develop new drugs.