SOAT1 and infection: Moreover, STAT plays a pivotal role in the antiviral defense of Drosophila, studies found that the number of factors specifically binding to the optimal DNA binding site of STAT92E in whole fly nuclear extracts of Drosophila infected with Drosophila C virus (DCV) increased, indicated that the infection of Drosophila with DCV induced the DNA binding activity of STAT (Yan et al., 1996; Dostert et al., 2005; Kemp et al., 2013).