SLC7A11 and viral infectious disease: The central role of SLC7A11 in maintaining intracellular ROS homeostasis and its relevance as a host factor in various human viral infections have been reported (Kaleeba and Berger, 2006; Hémon et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2021; Rabinowitz et al., 2021; Yuan et al., 2022).