The human cytomegalovirus protein UL147A downregulates the most prevalent MICA allele: MICA*008, to evade NK cell-mediated killing

• Einat Seidel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Einat Seidel, Liat Dassa, Vu Thuy Khanh Le-Trilling, Ofer Mandelboim

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University Medical School, IMRIC, Jerusalem, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9192-0272

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• Liat Dassa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Einat Seidel, Liat Dassa, Vu Thuy Khanh Le-Trilling, Ofer Mandelboim

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University Medical School, IMRIC, Jerusalem, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7897-7282

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• Corinna Schuler,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute for Virology of the University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1371-0779

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• Esther Oiknine-Djian,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations Clinical Virology Unit, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Biochemistry, IMRIC, Jerusalem, Israel, The Chanock Center for Virology, IMRIC, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Dana G. Wolf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations Clinical Virology Unit, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Biochemistry, IMRIC, Jerusalem, Israel, The Chanock Center for Virology, IMRIC, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Vu Thuy Khanh Le-Trilling ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Einat Seidel, Liat Dassa, Vu Thuy Khanh Le-Trilling, Ofer Mandelboim

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Khanh.Le@uk-essen.de (VTKL-T); oferm@ekmd.huji.ac.il (OM)

  Affiliation Institute for Virology of the University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2733-3732

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• Ofer Mandelboim

  Contributed equally to this work with: Einat Seidel, Liat Dassa, Vu Thuy Khanh Le-Trilling, Ofer Mandelboim

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Khanh.Le@uk-essen.de (VTKL-T); oferm@ekmd.huji.ac.il (OM)

  Affiliation The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University Medical School, IMRIC, Jerusalem, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9354-1855

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