Treating with anti-HN neutralizing mAb induced significant decline in the cytotoxicity of IFN R<sup>-/-</sup> NK cells toward Hepa1-6 cell line (P < 0.05).
In this study, we investigated the effects of IFN-λ on autophagy, a cellular process closely related to hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in human hepatoma Huh7 cells.
We found that while HBV replication in transfected human hepatoma Huh-7 cell was severely inhibited by IFN-α treatment as reported previously, this inhibition was markedly impaired in the cell in which the expression of IFN-inducible, double-stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR) was stably and specifically suppressed through RNA-interference.