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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