HNRNPU and infection: Previous studies have reported that hnRNPC protein was involved in the infection of hepatitis delta virus (HDV), dengue virus (DENV), Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), and hnRNPU protein functioned as a nuclear sensor for viral RNA (Casaca et al., 2011; Dechtawewat et al., 2015; Mukherjee et al., 2017; Cao et al., 2019).