CBLIF and viral infectious disease: For example, Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV), Dengue Virus (DENV), and Enterovirus 71 (EV71) are able to inhibit the overexpression of INF α/β in response to viral infection by enhancing the expression of miR-146a in infected cells (Wu et al., 2013; Ho et al., 2014; Sharma et al., 2015).