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Since NNR viruses co-opt the cellular translation machinery, the interferon response thus causes severe inhibition of viral translation.
Communist leaders can't decide whether to suppress Li or co-opt him for their own agenda.
And he may decide at some point that it's better to co-opt the blessed Harry than to annihilate him.
The ability of soluble monomeric G-actin to polymerize into filamentous F-actin in a reversible manner is central to the cellular function of actin [ 1 2 ] . Rearrangement of actin is promoted rapidly by extracellular stimuli, and is facilitated by sets of actin-associated proteins, one of which is profilin [ 2 ] . It is now appreciated that a large number of cellular parasites co-opt actin for their gene expression and replication in the host cell [ 3 4 ] . Due to its primary role in pediatric respiratory disease, and the enormous human and economic toll it exacts throughout the world, the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and its interaction with the host cell have received serious attention.
Hence, from the above observations, it is not unlikely that the host cells co-opt the transcription factors of their genomic parasites for their own cell-cycle-specific gene expression.