Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

E3 ligase FBXW7 is critical for RIG-I stabilization during antiviral responses

  • Yinjing Song,
  • Lihua Lai,
  • Zhenlu Chong,
  • Jia He,
  • Yuanyuan Zhang,
  • Yue Xue,
  • Yiwei Xie,
  • Songchang Chen,
  • Ping Dong,
  • Luoquan Chen,
  • Zhimin Chen,
  • Feng Dai,
  • Xiaopeng Wan,
  • Peng Xiao,
  • Xuetao Cao,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Qingqing Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14654
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The innate immune response to many RNA viruses depends on recognition of viral RNA by RIG-I. Here the authors show that, upon virus infection, FBXW7 interacts with RIG-I and inhibits ubiquitin-mediated degradation of RIG-I, resulting in increased interferon signallingin vitro and in vivo.