Influence of Polyamines on Induction of Interferon and Resistance to Viruses by Synthetic Polynucleotides

Autor: Maurice R. Hilleman, Lampson Gp, Alfred A. Tytell, Nemes Mm, Field Ak
Rok vydání: 1969
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Zdroj: Experimental Biology and Medicine. 132:212-218
ISSN: 1535-3699
1535-3702
Popis: SummaryCertain basic polyamines, such as neomycin, neamine, kanamycin, streptomycin, and spermine, added to poly I:C increased the Tm. The degree of termal stabilization was influenced by the molecular ratio of polyamine to poly I:C and by the ionic strength. Complexing with certain of the polyamines markedly reduced the rate of degradation of poly I:C but not of poly C by pancreatic ribonuclease. Some of the polyamines potentiated induction of resistance by poly I:C of primary rabbit kidney cells but not RK-13 rabbit kidney line or primary grivet kidney cells to infection by vesicular stomatitis virus. Neomycin did not alter the activity of poly I:C in intact animals against pneumonia virus of mice or against parainfluenza 1 (Sendai) virus in mice and did not decrease the toxicity of the complexed polynucleotide for these animals. Added neomycin did not affect the induction by poly I:C of interferon in rabbits. Neomycin did not render the single-stranded RNA's, poly I and poly C, capable of inducing inte...
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