mBio (Jun 2021)

Caspase-Dependent Cleavage of DDX21 Suppresses Host Innate Immunity

  • Wei Wu,
  • Yang Qu,
  • Shengqing Yu,
  • Sa Wang,
  • Yuncong Yin,
  • Qinfang Liu,
  • Chunchun Meng,
  • Ying Liao,
  • Zaib Ur Rehman,
  • Lei Tan,
  • Cuiping Song,
  • Xusheng Qiu,
  • Weiwei Liu,
  • Chan Ding,
  • Yingjie Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01005-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 3

Abstract

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Innate immunity serves as the first barrier against virus infection. DEAD (Glu-Asp-Ala-Glu) box RNA helicases, originally considered to be involved in RNA processing and RNA unwinding, have been shown to play an important role in antiviral innate immunity.