The phrase "alter host cell" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in scientific or medical contexts, particularly when discussing the modification or manipulation of cells in biological research or genetic engineering.
Example: "Researchers are exploring ways to alter host cells to improve the efficacy of gene therapy treatments."
Alternatives: "modify host cell" or "change host cell".
These toxins assemble as pore-forming multimers on the surface of susceptible target cells, such as neutrophils, monocytes, and macrophages, and can thereby alter host cell function or cause cytolysis [40] [43].
Finally, effectors can alter host cell function by mimicking plant peptides [ 40].
The presence of these eukaryotic domains raised the possibility that CiaD might alter host cell behavior.
It is well documented that hepatitis C virus can directly alter host cell lipid metabolism through nuclear transcription factors.
Effector proteins are defined as molecules that alter host cell structure or function, and thereby facilitate infection and/or trigger defence responses [ 3].
The bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease in humans appears to have acquired dozens of eukaryotic proteins via HGT that alter host cell functions to its advantage [ 35].
Thus, the ability of effectors to suppress plant defenses, alter host cells or gene function, can directly impact pathogen fitness.
Microbes, filamentous pathogens and insects deploy an arsenal of effector proteins in unique spatial and temporal patterns to suppress plant immunity or to influence plant physiology (ex. altering host cell structure and function) to benefit the colonization and spread of the parasite.
Damage by these microbes was demonstrated by alterations of the activity of a constitutively expressed luciferase in the host, as well as by using fluorescent probes indicative of altered host cell permeability.
A fortuitous observation has allowed us to demonstrate that virulent phages have evolved the capacity to take advantage of this altered host cell state to increase their own production.
Curcumin likely prevented HCMV from altering host cell microenviroment and HCMV antigen expressions.
