Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Activation and evasion of type I interferon responses by SARS-CoV-2

  • Xiaobo Lei,
  • Xiaojing Dong,
  • Ruiyi Ma,
  • Wenjing Wang,
  • Xia Xiao,
  • Zhongqin Tian,
  • Conghui Wang,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Li Li,
  • Lili Ren,
  • Fei Guo,
  • Zhendong Zhao,
  • Zhuo Zhou,
  • Zichun Xiang,
  • Jianwei Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17665-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 post a significant threat to public health. Here the authors show, by screening 23 viral proteins, that both structural and non-structural SARS-CoV-2 proteins are capable of modulating host innate immunity and type interferon responses, with this information serves to warrant further studies on SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis.