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SUBMITTER: Hwang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6709483 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hwang Jesse J Wang Yuchen Y Fikrig Erol E
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20190823 9
The mosquito-borne chikungunya virus (CHIKV) causes acute pain and joint inflammation, and in recent years the virus has caused large epidemics in previously CHIKV-free geographic areas. To advance the understanding of host factors that antagonize CHIKV, we show that synthetic agonist of liver X receptor (LXR-623) inhibits CHIKV replication by upregulating the cholesterol exporter ABCA1 and that endogenous and pharmacological activation of interferon signaling pathway partners with LXR-623 to ge ...[more]