host cell

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host cell
A cell that is infected by a virus or another type of microorganism.

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host cell
a cell whose metabolism is used by a virus for growth and reproduction or into which a plasmid is introduced in recombinant DNA experiments; in bioprocessing, the cells engineered and cultured to express a protein of interest are the expression system host cells.

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