AHI1 is a neurodevelopmental gene,and its expression deficiency was found to correlate with altered stress responses and depressive behaviors in mice.In a recent paper of Cell Research,Zhang et al.show that AHI1 reduc...
supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFE0103700,2018YFC1705500 and 2018YFC1705505);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31770177,31970846,81120108011,81771454,and 82071511);Jiangsu Provincial Distinguished Young Scholars(BK20130004);the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD).
Depression is a serious public-health issue.Recent reports have suggested higher susceptibility to viral infections in depressive patients.However,how depression affects antiviral innate immune signaling remains unkno...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91740204,91940306,and 31761163007 to Q.C.Z.,81930063 to J.W.,32070153 to Q.D.);the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFA0107603 and 2019YFA011000 to Q.C.Z.);Tsinghua University Spring Breeze Fund(2020Z99CFY029 to Q.C.Z.,2021Z99CFY030 to Q.D.);Non-profit Central Research Institute Fund of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences(2020HY320001 to L.R.);the Tsinghua-Cambridge Joint Research Initiative Fund(2019Z02CAU to Q.C.Z.).
In contrast to the extensive research about viral protein–host protein interactions that has revealed major insights about how RNA viruses engage with host cells during infection,few studies have examined interaction...
Nucleic acid-based antiviral systems,including CRISPR/Cas and RNA interference,play important roles in antiviral defense.In a paper recently published in Cell Research,Wu et al.revealed a novel nucleic acid-based anti...
The work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81620108020 and 32041002 to D.G.,31800151 to J.W.,81803568 to FX);Guangdong Zhujiang Talents Program(to D.G.);Shenzhen Science and Technology Program(KQTD20180411143323605 and JSGG20200225150431472 to D.G.,JCYJ20170818162249554 to F,X.);National Ten-thousand Talents Program(to D.G.)。
Nucleic acid-based systems play important roles in antiviral defense,including CRISPR/Cas that adopts RNA-guided DNA cleavage to prevent DNA phage infection and RNA interference(RNAi)that employs RNA-guided RNA cleava...
Cytokine storm and multi-organ failure are the main causes of SARS-CoV-2-related death.However,the origin of excessive damages caused by SARS-CoV-2 remains largely unknown.Here we show that the SARS-CoV-2 envelope(2-E...
We thank Dr. Pin Wang for technical assistance. supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81788101 to X.C.);the National Key Research & Development Program of China (2018YFA0507403 to X.C.);CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2016-12M-1-003 to X.C.).
Type I interferon (IFN-I) production is efficiently induced to ensure a potent innate immune response to viral infection. How this response can be enhanced, however, remains to be explored. Here, we identify a new cyt...
National Natural Science Foundation of China (91753141 to HBL).
A recent study in Cell Research by Hu et al. describes a novel function of intracellular bile acids (BAs), a class of cholesterolderived metabolites, which activate several key innate antiviral signaling components th...
Type I interferon (IFN) production plays pivotal roles in host antiviral innate immune responses, but an excessive production of type I IFN leads to the development of immunopathological conditions. Investigations o...
Airway epithelial cells are key initial innate immune responders in the fight against respiratory viruses, primarily via the secretion of antiviral and proinflammatory cytokines that act in an autocrine/paracrine fash...