Nucleic acid construct containing a nucleic acid derived from the genome of hepatitis C virus (HCV) of genotype 2a, and a cell having such nucleic acid construct introduced therein
The present invention relates to a replicon RNA comprising a nucleotide sequence at least containing the 5′ untranslated region, the nucleotide sequence encoding NS3 protein, NS4A protein, NS4B protein, NS5A protein and NS5B protein, and the 3′ untranslated region on the genomic RNA of hepatitis C virus of genotype 2a.