insects Article Homologs of Human Dengue-Resistance Genes, FKBP1B and ATCAY, Confer Antiviral Resistance in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Seokyoung Kang 1,*,†, Dongyoung Shin 2,†, Derrick K. Mathias 2, Berlin Londono-Renteria 3 , Mi Young Noh 4, Tonya M. Colpitts 5, Rhoel R. Dinglasan 1, Yeon Soo Han 4 and Young S. Hong 6,* 1 Emerging Pathogens Institute and the Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA;
[email protected]fl.edu 2 Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Department of Nematology and Entomology, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Vero Beach, FL 32962, USA; dshin@ufl.edu (D.S.); d.mathias@ufl.edu (D.K.M.) 3 Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA;
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[email protected] (Y.S.H.) † These authors contributed equally to this work. Received: 1 September 2018; Accepted: 29 January 2019; Published: 2 February 2019 Abstract: Dengue virus (DENV) is transmitted by mosquitoes and is a major public health concern. The study of innate mosquito defense mechanisms against DENV have revealed crucial roles for the Toll, Imd, JAK-STAT, and RNAi pathways in mediating DENV in the mosquito.