This contrasts with productive infection, where at least nine proteins, including US9, UL31, UL35, UL42, UL48, UL82 (pp71), UL83 (pp65), UL94, and UL122, are known to inhibit the STING pathway [76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84]. This evidence concerns the gene RPS16 and infection.