Influenza Virus NS1 Protein-RNA Interactome Reveals Intron Targeting

Liang Zhang1, Juan Wang2, Raquel Muñoz-Moreno3,4

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China lzhangxmu@xmu.edu.cn beatriz.fontoura@utsouthwestern.edu.

Journal of Virology
|September 28, 2018
PubMed
Summary

The influenza A virus NS1 protein binds intronic sequences in cellular RNAs, including RIG-I pre-mRNA. This interaction impairs RIG-I intron removal, suggesting a posttranscriptional mechanism for NS1 to inhibit antiviral responses.

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