Production of interferon gamma messenger RNA by cells of non-immune origin
| Autor: | Samuel Baron, Patrick Cadet, Stephen K. Tyring, G J Stanton, Peter L. Rady, Thomas K. Hughes, T.K. Bui |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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Interferon Inducers
Immunology Biochemistry Polymerase Chain Reaction Virus Interferon-gamma Mice Immune system L Cells Poly ICLC medicine Immunology and Allergy Animals Interferon gamma Polylysine RNA Messenger Molecular Biology Messenger RNA biology RNA Antibodies Monoclonal Interferon-alpha Hematology Interferon-beta Fibroblasts Embryo Mammalian Virology Recombinant Proteins Cell biology Poly I-C Cell culture Organ Specificity Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium biology.protein Antibody medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Cytokine. 7(8) |
| ISSN: | 1043-4666 |
| Popis: | There is general agreement that IFN-gamma is produced only by cells of immune origin (T-cells, NK cells, and recently macrophages). However, indirect evidence has suggested that undetectable, low levels of IFN-gamma produced by cells of non-immune lineage, such as the murine line L-929, enhanced the antiviral activity of IFNs-alpha and/or beta following induction by agents such as the double stranded RNA poly ICLC. Since L-929 cells were one of the prototypic cell lines for studying murine IFN induction and action, we felt that it would be important to validate this observation by detection of the mRNA for IFN-gamma. If confirmed, it might indicate a role for IFN-gamma in non-immune cells. The present investigations revealed that mouse L-929 fibroblasts produce IFN-gamma message following exposure to conventional IFN-alpha/beta inducers such as poly ICLC or Newcastle disease virus. In addition, we found that IFN-gamma itself will induce its own message. We further show that this is not a phenomenon isolated to transformed cells since we found that normal mouse embryo fibroblasts also produced the message, however in a constitutive fashion. |
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