Meyer T, Dietrich FM, Walker MR, Hochkeppel HK. Antagonism of interferon induction in spleen and adherent peritoneal cells of mice by the lipophilic antiviral muramyl peptide MTP-PE.
JOURNAL OF INTERFERON RESEARCH 1986;
6:183-8. [PMID:
2427620 DOI:
10.1089/jir.1986.6.183]
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Abstract
The immunomodulator muramyl tripeptide-phosphatidylethanolamine (MTP-PE) has been shown to enhance host resistance against a variety of experimental infections and to cure influenza virus infection in mice when given in a single dose, even at a late stage of the disease. Tests of its capacity to induce alpha/beta- and gamma-interferon (IFN-alpha/beta and -gamma) in vitro demonstrated that it is neither an inducer nor a primer of IFN synthesis. On the contrary, we found that it inhibits the induction of IFN-alpha/beta and -gamma by poly(rI:rC), Newcastle disease virus, lipopolysaccharide, or concanavalin A in adherent cells from the peritoneal cavity and spleen of mice. The antiviral activity of already induced or exogenously added murine IFN was, however, not impaired.
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