We performed experiments using influenza A/WSN/33 virus infection of mouse fibroblast cell-line (NIH-3T3) to study the effects of IDO on viral replication.
We observed that spliced ERVWE1 transcripts and those encoding the transcription factor glial cells missing 1 (GCM1), acting as an enhancer element upstream of ERVWE1, are prominently upregulated in response to influenza A/WSN/33 virus infection in nonplacental cells.
To determine whether the cellular miRNAs play an important role in H1N1 influenza A viral infections, 3' untranslated region (UTR) reporter analysis was used to identify putative miRNA targets in the influenza virus genome, and virus proliferation analysis was used to detect the effect of the screened miRNAs on the replication of H1N1 influenza A virus (A/WSN/33) in MDCK cells.