Killer cell proteases can target viral immediate-early proteins to control human cytomegalovirus infection in a noncytotoxic manner

• Liling Shan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Shuang Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8897-443X

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• Jan Meeldijk,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Bernadet Blijenberg,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Astrid Hendriks,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Karlijn J. W. M. van Boxtel,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Sara P. H. van den Berg,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Ian J. Groves,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8882-6701

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• Martin Potts,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6738-0066

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• Adriana Svrlanska,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6062-9909

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• Thomas Stamminger,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9878-3119

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• Mark R. Wills ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark R. Wills, Niels Bovenschen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8548-5729

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• Niels Bovenschen

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark R. Wills, Niels Bovenschen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: n.bovenschen@umcutrecht.nl

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Center for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8526-4456

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