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To investigate the role of profilin in host-virus interaction in intact cells, we sought to develop a profilin knock-down cell by using RNA interference targeted against profilin mRNA as described under Materials and Methods.
We conclude that profilin has only a minor role, if any, in the expression of RSV macromolecules in the infected cell, although it is impossible to rule out that small amounts of profilin survived the knock-down and sufficed for viral transcription.
Knock-down of actin completely destroyed the cell's architecture [ 26 ] , and therefore, was not a meaningful approach in these studies.