Systems virology articles from across Nature Portfolio

A host-viral interactome map demonstrates that turnip mosaic virus targets high information-spreading nodes, which are also hubs.

A pseudotime analysis of the host cell response to SARS-CoV-2 infection using publicly available scRNA-seq data derived from in vitro studies reveals a non-lineal, triphasic transcriptional response and suggests a global regulatory mechanism.

Zika virus (ZIKV) infection suppresses the induction of dendritic cell (DC)-derived immunity, but the underlying mechanistical insights are still lacking. Here the authors show, using in vitro systems profiling of DC transcriptome and epigenome, that ZIKV specifically alters SREBP2-related expression of inflammation- and metabolism-related genes to modulate DC functions.

Master Regulator proteins, controlling the transcriptional identity of infected cells, can serve as drug targets for inhibiting virus replication, here demonstrated in a SARSCoV-2 infection model.

Here, Hiatt et al. report the knock-out of over 400 genes in primary CD4+ T cells to assess their functional role in HIV replication, finding 86 initial candidates of which 47 are validated as HIV host factors, including 23 with restrictive activity.