Abstract:Eukaryotic cells stimulated with external stresses such as heat shock, oxidative stress, nutrient deficiency or viral infections will induce a series of cellular responses, including stress granules (SGs), to facilitate the survival in the condition of environment stresses. As an aggregation product of translation initiation complex in cytoplasm, SGs play an important role in gene expression and homeostasis. Virus infection is one of the conditions that induces the production of SG. After the viruses invade the host cells, the host's translation system were hijacked by the viruses to fulfill its life cycle. Thus, host cells suspend the translation system and form the SGs to antagonize the invasion of viruses. This paper reviews the production and function of SG, the interaction between viruses and SGs, and the relationship between SGs and virus-induced innate immunity, in order to provide a direction for further research on antiviral targets.