Check out this fun preview of my postdoctoral work! It highlights our findings plus lots of intriguing questions that I’m super excited to tackle in the coming years. (And the model is beautiful! Thank you! 🧑🎨 )
Now you see me, now you don’t: What and how viral RNAs are detected by cytoplasmic pattern-recognition receptors
Emmanuelle Genoyer
In a recent issue of Molecular Cell, Genoyer et al. show that during West Nile virus infection, escaped, cytoplasmic, anti-genomic negative-sense viral RNA triggers an antiviral response via RIG-I activation. Flaviviruses typically hide −vRNA in replication compartments to avoid detection, but some −vRNA leaks, possibly aided by viral capsid proteins.
