| Literature DB >> 18077718 |
Joanna W Ho1, Oren Hershkovitz, Malik Peiris, Alon Zilka, Ahuva Bar-Ilan, Beatrice Nal, Kid Chu, Mateusz Kudelko, Yiu Wing Kam, Hagit Achdout, Michal Mandelboim, Ralf Altmeyer, Ofer Mandelboim, Roberto Bruzzone, Angel Porgador.
Abstract
Antiviral immune defenses involve natural killer (NK) cells. We previously showed that the NK-activating receptor NKp44 is involved in the functional recognition of H1-type influenza virus strains by NK cells. In the present study, we investigated the interaction of NKp44 and the hemagglutinin of a primary influenza virus H5N1 isolate. Here we show that recombinant NKp44 recognizes H5-expressing cells and specifically interacts with soluble H5 hemagglutinin. H5-pseudotyped lentiviral particles bind to NK cells expressing NKp44. Following interaction with target cells expressing H5, pseudotyped lentiviral particles, or membrane-associated H5, NK cells show NKp44-mediated induced activity. These findings indicate that NKp44-H5 interactions induce functional NK activation.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 18077718 PMCID: PMC2258730 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02065-07
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103