Early enterovirus translation deficits extend viral RNA replication and elicit sustained MDA5-directed innate signaling

Multiple Pattern Recognition Receptors sense vRNAs and initiate downstream innate signaling: endosomal Toll-like receptors (TLRs) 3, 7, and 8 and cytoplasmic RIG-I-like receptors (RLRs) RIG-I, and MDA5. They engage distinct signaling scaffolds: mitochondrial Antiviral signaling protein (RLR), MyD88, and TLR-adaptor interacting with SLC15A4 on the lysosome (TLR7 and TLR8) and toll/IL-1R domain-containing adaptor inducing IFN (TLR3). By virtue of their unusual vRNA structure and direct host cell entry path, the innate response to EVs uniquely is orchestrated by MDA5. We reported that PVSRIPO's profound attenuation and loss of cytopathogenicity triggers MDA5-directed polar TBK1-IRF3 signaling that generates priming of polyfunctional antitumor CD8⁺ T-cell responses and durable antitumor surveillance in vivo. Here we unraveled EV-host relations that control suppression of host type-I IFN responses and show that PVSRIPO's deficient immediate host eIF4G cleavage generates unopposed MDA5-directed downstream signaling cascades resulting in sustained type-I IFN release.

IRF3; MDA5; eIF4G; interferon; poliovirus.