The role of the host ubiquitin system in promoting replication of emergent viruses

KM Valerdi, A Hage, S van Tol, R Rajsbaum, MI Giraldo - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ubiquitination of proteins is a post-translational modification process with many different
cellular functions, including protein stability, immune signaling, antiviral functions and virus …

Human type I interferon antiviral effects in respiratory and reemerging viral infections

PL Acosta, AB Byrne, DR Hijano… - Journal of immunology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Type I interferons (IFN‐I) are a group of related proteins that help regulate the activity of the
immune system and play a key role in host defense against viral infections. Upon infection …

Evolution of STAT2 resistance to flavivirus NS5 occurred multiple times despite genetic constraints

EC Veit, MS Salim, MJ Jung, RB Richardson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Zika and dengue virus nonstructural protein 5 antagonism of STAT2, a critical interferon
signaling transcription factor, to suppress the host interferon response is required for viremia …

African swine fever virus ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme pI215L inhibits IFN-I signaling pathway through STAT2 degradation

E Riera, R García-Belmonte, R Madrid… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is the causative agent of one of the most lethal diseases
affecting domestic pig and wild boar, which is endangering the swine industry due to its …

CMPK2 restricts Zika virus replication by inhibiting viral translation

JB Pawlak, JCC Hsu, H Xia, P Han, HW Suh… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Flaviviruses continue to emerge as global health threats. There are currently no Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) approved antiviral treatments for flaviviral infections. Therefore …

African swine fever virus induces STAT1 and STAT2 degradation to counteract IFN-I signaling

E Riera, D Pérez-Núñez, R García-Belmonte… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
African swine fever virus (ASFV) causes a serious disease in domestic pigs and wild boars
and is currently expanding worldwide. No safe and efficacious vaccines against ASFV are …

Importance of Zika virus NS5 protein for viral replication

H Elshahawi, S Syed Hassan, V Balasubramaniam - Pathogens, 2019 - mdpi.com
Zika virus is the latest addition to an ever-growing list of arboviruses that are causing
outbreaks with serious consequences. A few mild cases were recorded between 1960 and …

Consumptive coagulopathy of severe yellow fever occurs independently of hepatocellular tropism and massive hepatic injury

AL Bailey, LI Kang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Yellow fever (YF) is a mosquito-transmitted viral disease that causes tens of thousands of
deaths each year despite the long-standing deployment of an effective vaccine. In its most …

Yellow fever: Integrating current knowledge with technological innovations to identify strategies for controlling a re-emerging virus

RDV Kleinert, E Montoya-Diaz, T Khera, K Welsch… - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Yellow fever virus (YFV) represents a re-emerging zoonotic pathogen, transmitted by
mosquito vectors to humans from primate reservoirs. Sporadic outbreaks of YFV occur in …

Type I and Type II Interferon Antagonism Strategies Used by Paramyxoviridae: Previous and New Discoveries, in Comparison

G Pisanelli, U Pagnini, G Iovane, A García-Sastre - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Paramyxoviridae is a viral family within the order of Mononegavirales; they are negative
single-strand RNA viruses that can cause significant diseases in both humans and animals …