Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016
Abstract
UV irradiation of a continuous line of rabbit kidney cells (RK13) was used as a tool for the study of the mechanism of interferon induction. Irradiation of cells prior to their exposure to Newcastle disease virus (NDV) resulted in a dose-dependent decrease in interferon production. The inhibition of total cellular RNA synthesis by UV irradiation in uninduced cultures was similar to the inactivation curve of interferon production in NDV-induced cultures. In contrast, the production of interferon with polyinosinate-polycytidylate (poly[I]·poly [C]) paradoxically was enhanced in cells irradiated with a wide range of doses of UV. However, in cells stimulated with poly(I)·poly(C) and “superinduced” by the sequential addition of cycloheximide and actinomycin D, the rate of inactivation of interferon production by UV light was similar to that observed with NDV. These results are not inconsistent with the idea that both poly(I)·poly(C) and NDV stimulate the same interferon gene(s), but indicate that the mechanism controlling its expression may be different for each inducer.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
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