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A total of 18 different types of human leukemic cell lines were tested for their susceptibility to the anticellular and antiviral effects of interferons (IFNs) alpha, beta and gamma. In general, only the three myelogenous leukemic cell lines U937, KG-1 and HL-60 were found to be highly susceptible to the anticellular effect of the different IFNs while cells of the other lineages were relatively resistant. In order to determine whether the cell lines were sensitive to the antiviral effects of IFNs, the cells were first screened for their ability to support the replication of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), sindbis virus (SBV) and semliki forest virus (SFV). Unexpectedly, only three cell lines--Raji, K562 and U937 were highly susceptible to SFV while other cell lines were relatively refractory to all three viruses. Using SFV as indicator virus, the antiviral activity of all IFNs could be detected in all three cell lines and their relative efficiency was in the order of alpha greater than beta greater than gamma. The significance of these results were discussed.
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PMID:Susceptibility of different leukemic cell lines to the anticellular and antiviral effects of interferons. 299 58

Treatment with murine gamma-interferon (IFN) preparations of variant sublines of Friend leukemia cells resistant to the alpha, beta IFN-induced antiviral state (Affabris, E., Jemma, C., and Rossi, G.B. (1982) Virology 120, 441-452; Affabris, E., Romeo, G., Belardelli, F., Jemma, C., Mechti, N., Gresser, I., and Rossi, G. B. (1983) Virology 125, 508-512) results in the establishment of a bona fide antiviral state. In fact, gamma IFN preparations are able to induce a dose-dependent reduction of endogenous virus release and of vesicular stomatitis or encephalomyocarditis viruses yields (up to 1.5 log). Under these experimental conditions, no inducible 2-5A synthetase activity is detectable in cell extracts. The 67-kDa protein kinase, uninducible by treatment with alpha, beta IFN (up to 13,000 units/ml), is instead induced upon treatment with gamma IFN at a similar rate of activity as in wild-type Friend leukemia cells, both when assayed in solution and after immobilization on poly(rI) X poly(rC)-agarose.
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PMID:Establishment of the antiviral state in alpha, beta-interferon-resistant Friend cells treated with gamma-interferon. Induction of 67-kilodalton protein kinase activity in absence of detectable 2-5A synthetase. 391 27

HeLa cells show a decrease of susceptibility to the killing by natural killer (NK) cells when treated with IFN-alpha, beta, or gamma. The concentrations at which preparations of IFN-alpha or beta induce the resistance to killing are those which also induce resistance of HeLa cells to infection by vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV). Stimulation of the killing activity of NK cells is also induced at that same range of concentrations of IFN-alpha and beta. In contrast with preparations of IFN-gamma, induction of the resistance to killing occurs at IFN concentrations which have only marginal stimulatory effect on the activity of NK cells and have no antiviral effect against VSV. IFN-gamma, produced with cloned IFN-gamma cDNA, is as effective as lymphocyte-produced IFN in inducing the resistance to natural killing. The potent effect of IFN-gamma on the target cells is, therefore, not due to the function of lymphokines which might contaminate lymphocyte-produced preparations of IFN-gamma, but a genuine property of the IFN itself.
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PMID:Interferon-induced resistance to the killing by NK cells: a preferential effect of IFN-gamma. 640 52

Effects of exogenous cytokines on replication of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) in amniotic membrane and placental organ cultures (OC) were studied. We compared the effects observed in OC and established human carcinoma cell lines: A549 and HEp-2. Recombinant human tumor necrosis factor alpha (rHuTNF-alpha), added to amniotic membrane, villous, or decidual OC at concentrations of 30 to 3000 U/ml, potentiated VSV replication by 10-1000 fold. Addition of 5 to 10000 U/ml of recombinant human interleukin 6 (rHuIL-6) to OC from 5 placentas was without effect on VSV growth, except one culture in which enhanced VSV replication has been observed. rHuTNF-alpha was found to have no effect on VSV growth in HEp-2 and A549 cell cultures. In contrast, the placental OC were sensitive to antiviral activity of natural interferons (IFNs): alpha, beta and recombinant IFN-gamma, although A549 cells were 5 to 10 fold more responsive to the cytokines.
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PMID:Effect of exogenous tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin 6 and interferons on vesicular stomatitis virus replication in human placenta and amniotic membrane organ cultures. 887 71

The cytoprotective role of heat shock proteins (HSP) described in variety of human diseases, including ischemia, inflammation, and infection, suggests new therapeutic strategies relying upon the development of drugs that selectively turn on heat shock genes. Cyclopentenone prostaglandins, which contain an alpha, beta-unsaturated carbonyl group in the cyclopentane ring and possess antiviral activity against several RNA and DNA viruses, were shown to function as signal for HSP synthesis in a nonstressful situation in a variety of mammalian cells. We now report that 2-cyclopenten-1-one selectively induces the expression of the 70-kDa HSP (HSP70) in human cells, through cycloheximide-sensitive activation of heat shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1). The alpha, beta-unsaturated carbonyl group is the key structure triggering HSF1 activation. Induction is associated with antiviral activity during infection with vesicular stomatitis virus. These results identify the molecular structure of natural prostaglandins responsible for HSF1 activation and open new perspectives in the search for novel antiviral and cytoprotective drugs.
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PMID:2-Cyclopenten-1-one, a new inducer of heat shock protein 70 with antiviral activity. 894 75