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"Overall, our results suggest that auranofin treatment can cause the degradation of IRF3 protein in human and mouse cells.Auranofin activates the cellular autophagy pathway to induce IRF3 degradation Degradation of IRF3 protein is a key biochemical event regulating virus replication and host inflammatory response.Many viruses also trigger proteasomal degradation of IRF3 to facilitate viral replication (22, 23) ."
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"Together, auranofin inhibits both the proapoptotic and transcriptional activities of IRF3 in multiple cell types.To determine the molecular mechanism of auranofin-mediated inhibition of IRF3 activities, we investigated the effect of auranofin on IRF3 phosphorylation (p-IRF3), which is critical for the transcriptional activity of IRF3."
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"∗ indicates p < 0.05.Figure 7: Autophagic degradation of IRF3 by auranofin inhibits palmitic-acid-induced apoptotic cell death in human hepatocytes.A, Huh7 cells were treated with palmitic acid (PA) or vehicle (bovine serum albumin, BSA) for 24 h, when the caspase-3 activity was measured."
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"Autophagic degradation of IRF3 induced by the small-molecule auranofin inhibits its transcriptional and proapoptotic activities.The ubiquitously expressed transcription factor interferon (IFN) regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) is critical for the induction of antiviral genes, e.g., type-I IFN."
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"Collectively, our results suggest that auranofin inhibits the fatty-acid-induced hepatocyte apoptosis by causing autophagic degradation of IRF3 protein.Given the critical role of IRF3 in innate immune defense, identifying both positive and negative modulators of the IRF3 functions is desirable."