IFI27 and infection: IFI27 expression is induced after the infections by many viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2 (Mick et al., 2020; Gupta et al., 2021; Huang et al., 2021; Kulasinghe et al., 2022; Shojaei et al., 2022; Villamayor et al., 2023a), as part of the innate immune response.