id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-312001-8p7scli8 Majzoub, Karim The Innate Antiviral Response in Animals: An Evolutionary Perspective from Flagellates to Humans 2019-08-16 .txt text/plain 10056 548 46 Consequently, animal cells have evolved devoted pathways which (1) sense and recognize pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and, more particularly, virus-associated molecular signatures; (2) initiate signaling cascades stemming from the site of detection, translocating the information to the nucleus; and (3) induce a transcriptional program that confers an antiviral state to the host ( Figure 1 ). While the cytosolic recognition of viral RNA is almost exclusively mediated by RLRs, several proteins have been proposed to play a role in DNA sensing and triggering innate immune responses, such as the DNA-dependent activator of IFN-regulatory factors (DAI), DDX41, RNA polymerase III, IFI16 and DNA-PK [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] . Although the pathway leading to the transcriptional activation of Vago is still poorly understood in insects, these studies established that DExD/H-box helicase containing proteins, like Dicer and RLRs, may represent an evolutionarily conserved set of viral nucleic acid sensors that direct antiviral responses in animals [159] . ./cache/cord-312001-8p7scli8.txt ./txt/cord-312001-8p7scli8.txt