The fact that IFN could be induced during the first 12 hrs post-infection with JFH1 in Huh7.25.CD81/TRIM25 or in Huh7.5/RIG-I cells was an indication that HCV dsRNA structures had appeared in the cytosol that activate RIG-I and that these structures may also represent good candidates to activate PKR. Here, RIGI is linked to infection.