A screen for compounds that alleviate the inhibitory effect of influenza NS1 on host gene expression and suppress viral toxicity found naphthalimides that could upregulate REDD1, an mTORC1 inhibitor, revealing that viruses inhibit REDD1 to activate the mTORC1 pathway.
- Miguel A Mata
- Neal Satterly
- Beatriz M A Fontoura