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by Tudor Toma

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Pro-apoptotic influenza protein

A previously unidentified influenza mitochondrial protein induces cell death in immune cells sent to destroy the virus.

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011204-02

Published

4 December 2001

Severe influenza infections can kill, particularly neonates and the elderly, but despite this little is known about the viral proteins involved in pathogenicity. In December Nature Medicine, Weisan Chen and colleagues from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, US, describe a novel influenza A virus mitochondrial protein that induces cell death in host immune cells sent to destroy the influenza virus.

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