NK cell interplay with cytomegaloviruses

B Lisnić, VJ Lisnić, S Jonjić - Current opinion in virology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•NK cells are lymphocytes that belong to innate arm of the immune system.•NK
cells are very important in resistance to many viruses and tumors.•Cytomegaloviruses are
large DNA viruses that persist lifelong.•CMVs have developed multiple strategies to avoid
NK cell recognition and killing.NK cells play an important role in the control of viral
infections. Cytomegaloviruses have played a big part in the accumulation of current
knowledge describing how NK cells recognize and eliminate infected cells. The interference …