Virus mimics human protein to hijack cell division machinery
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 16:49
in Biology & Nature
Viruses are masters of deception, duping their host's cells into helping them grow and spread. A new study has found that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can mimic a common regulatory protein to hijack normal cell growth machinery, disrupting a cell's primary anti-cancer mechanism.