NCOR1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Therefore, to test whether autophagy played any role in the degradation of misfolded NCoR in HBX positive HCC cells, level of full length NCoR protein in SKHep1 cells treated in a dose dependent manner with bafilomycin A1 (BA-1), a selective inhibitor of autophagy, was determined by western blotting assay.