EEF1A1 and viral infectious disease: In addition to its roles in polypeptide chain elongation, the noncanonical functions of eEF1A1 have become a focus recently, such as apoptosis (Akintade and Chaudhuri, 2020), virus infection (White et al., 2021), signal transduction (Akintade and Chaudhuri, 2020), and tumorigenesis (Liu S. et al., 2019).