Viral Strategies to Regulate Host Immunity or Signal Pathways, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Viral Immunology, Vaccines, and Antivirals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 562
Special Issue Editor
Interests: viral immunity; RNA virus-host interaction; influenza; LCMV; sphingolipid network
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Viruses appear to have developed diverse strategies to regulate host immunity and cellular signal pathways in order to facilitate viral propagation. Highly pathogenic viruses effectively elude or suppress the host protective immune system and even utilize host machinery for robust viral replication or spread. Therefore, determining the mechanisms for pathogenic virus–host interactions and viral methodologies to escape the host immunity could help us understand how viruses cause diseases and ultimately help to design new therapeutics to cure the viral diseases.
This Special Issue will cover research on recent scientific discoveries about virus–host interaction, viral disruption of cellular signal pathways, viral utilization of host machinery, and viral tactics to escape or inhibit the host innate or adaptive immune responses. You are cordially invited to contribute unique research or review articles on the related research topics.
Prof. Dr. Bumsuk Hahm
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- virus–host interaction
- viral immunity
- viral pathogenesis
- immune evasion
- innate immunity
- adaptive immunity
- signal pathway
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