The invention relates to the technical field of
biomedicine, in particular to a novel target spot for resisting
chikungunya virus infection and application. According to the invention,
human colon cancer cells (HCT116) are taken as target cells, and
retinoic acid-induced
protein expression of the target cells is reduced by adopting a
gene knockout technology, so that
host factors capable of effectively inhibiting CHIKV infection of the
human colon cancer cells are found, and the purpose of blocking CHIKV infection from the source is achieved. It is found that
retinoic acid induced
protein 16 (RAI16) plays an important role in CHIKV infected HCT116 cells, and CHIKV infection can be obviously promoted by down-regulating expression of RAI16. The invention provides an application of RAI16 in preparation of a
medicine for preventing or treating
chikungunya virus infection, and provides a new target spot and a treatment scheme for clinically preventing and treating fever, arthralgia, arthrocele, muscular pain, headache,
nausea, fatigue,
rash and other diseases caused by CHIKV infection.