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Pegylated IFN-α suppresses hepatitis C virus by promoting the DAPK-mTOR pathway.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Dec 2016
Liu Wei-Liang, Yang Hung-Chih, Hsu Ching-Sheng, Wang Chih-Chiang, Wang Tzu-San, Kao Jia-Horng, Chen Ding-Shinn
Abstract excerpt
Death-associated protein kinase (DAPK) has been found to be induced by IFN, but its antiviral activity remains elusive. Therefore, we investigated whether DAPK plays a role in the pegylated IFN-α (peg-IFN-α)-induced antiviral activity against hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication. Primary human hepatocytes, Huh-7, and infectious HCV cell culture were used to study the relationship between peg-IFN-α and the...
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