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SUBMITTER: Ye J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3076628 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature chemical biology 20101114 1
Here we report that bufalin and other cardiac glycoside inhibitors of the sodium-potassium ATPase (sodium pump) potently inhibit the induction of the interferon-β (IFNβ) gene by virus, double-stranded RNA or double-stranded DNA. Cardiac glycosides increase the intracellular sodium concentration, which appears to inhibit the ATPase activity of the RNA sensor RIG-I, an essential and early component in the IFNβ activation pathway. This, in turn, prevents the activation of the critical transcription ...[more]