CD34 and infection: Finally, it was recently published that HCMV utilizes secreted protein pUL7, miR-US5-1, and miR-UL112-3p to reduce the proapoptotic transcription factor FOXO3a, which in turn reduces expression of proapoptotic gene BCL2L11 and prevents virus-induced apoptosis after infection of CD34+ HPCs (Hancock et al., 2021).