Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Genome-wide CRISPR screen identifies host dependency factors for influenza A virus infection

  • Bo Li,
  • Sara M. Clohisey,
  • Bing Shao Chia,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Ang Cui,
  • Thomas Eisenhaure,
  • Lawrence D. Schweitzer,
  • Paul Hoover,
  • Nicholas J. Parkinson,
  • Aharon Nachshon,
  • Nikki Smith,
  • Tim Regan,
  • David Farr,
  • Michael U. Gutmann,
  • Syed Irfan Bukhari,
  • Andrew Law,
  • Maya Sangesland,
  • Irit Gat-Viks,
  • Paul Digard,
  • Shobha Vasudevan,
  • Daniel Lingwood,
  • David H. Dockrell,
  • John G. Doench,
  • J. Kenneth Baillie,
  • Nir Hacohen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13965-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Here, Li et al. perform a genome-wide CRISPR screen to identify host dependency factors for influenza A virus infection and show that the host mRNA cap methyltransferase CMTR1 is important for viral cap snatching and that it affects expression of antiviral genes.