These substances are used to destroy virus-infected cells.
He also studied the mechanisms that regulate production of interferons, the small proteins produced by virus-infected cells to fight virus replication.
In addition, NS1 is probably able to suppress the interferon response in the virus-infected cell leading to unimpaired virus production.
Their purpose is to induce apoptosis within virus-infected cells, thus destroying them.
It plays an important role in the immune system by attacking virus-infected cells, foreign cells, and cancer cells.
Killers are known to attack virus-infected cells and cells that have become cancerous.
This thereby inhibits the CD8-restricted cytotoxic T cell response against virus-infected cells.
So they mixed virus-infected cells and white blood cells from the mice.
They also limit viral spread by increasing p53 activity, which kills virus-infected cells by promoting apoptosis.
There is evidence that this protein makes infected cells more adhesive, thereby promoting the interaction between virus-infected cells and immune system cells.
