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SUBMITTER: Zhong C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3321629 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhong C C Li C C Wang X X Toyoda T T Gao G G Fan Z Z
Cell death and differentiation 20111202 5
The influenza A virus is a causative agent of influenza, which infects human cells and uses host factors to accomplish viral genome replication as part of its life cycle. The nucleoprotein (NP) and PB2 of the influenza virus associate with importin α1 to gain access to the host nucleus through a ternary import complex. Killer cell-mediated cytotoxicity is the primary mechanism of eliminating the influenza virus. Here, we showed that lymphokine-activated killer cells participated in the eliminati ...[more]