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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 11, Pages 1346-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41556-019-0416-0
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- National Natural Science Foundation (NNSF) of China [31770943, 81430099, 31900661]
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China [2015A030306043, 2018A030313924, 2018A030313051]
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In the past two decades, emerging studies have suggested that DExD/H box helicases belonging to helicase superfamily 2 (SF2) play essential roles in antiviral innate immunity. However, the antiviral functions of helicase SF1, which shares a conserved helicase core with SF2, are little understood. Here we demonstrate that zinc finger NFX1-type containing 1 (ZNFX1), a helicase SF1, is an interferon (IFN)-stimulated, mitochondrial-localised dsRNA sensor that specifically restricts the replication of RNA viruses. Upon virus infection, ZNFX1 immediately recognizes viral RNA through its Armadillo-type fold and P-loop domain and then interacts with mitochondrial antiviral signalling protein to initiate the type I IFN response without depending on retinoic acid-inducible gene I-like receptors (RLRs). In short, as is the case with interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) alone, ZNFX1 can induce IFN and ISG expression at an early stage of RNA virus infection to form a positively regulated loop of the well-known RLR signalling. This provides another layer of understanding of the complexity of antiviral immunity.
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