supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program(973 Program)(Nos.2010CB530105 and 2011CB504802);the Start-up Fund of the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.20071010-141);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.30870120).
In the last decade,substantial progress has been made in understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in the initial host responses to viral infections.Herpes-viral infections can provoke an inflammatory cytokine r...