To address the role of each factor in the innate response against viral infection, we infected susceptible monocytic THP-1 cells WT or KO for STING, cGAS or IFI16 with NiV-eGFP (Fig 3A and 3B) or MeV-eGFP (Fig 3C and 3D). This evidence concerns the gene IFI16 and viral infectious disease.