Potentiation of direct antitumor cytotoxicity and production of tumor cytolytic factors in human blood monocytes by human recombinant interferon-gamma and muramyl dipeptide derivatives |
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Authors: | Saburo Sone Gabriel Lopez-Berestein Isaiah J. Fidler |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Cell Biology, The University of Texas System Cancer Center M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, 77030 Houston, Texas, USA;(2) Department of Clinical Immunology and Biological Therapy, The University of Texas System Cancer Center M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, 77030 Houston, Texas, USA;(3) Department of Cell Biology (1/3), M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, 6723 Bertner Avenue, 77030 Houston, Texas, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary We investigated whether human peripheral blood monocytes isolated by centrifugal elutriation from healthy donors could be acitivated to become tumoricidal and release tumor cytolytic factor (TCF) subsequent to incubation with recombinant human interferon-gamma (r-IFN- ) or a derivative of muramyl dipeptide (nor-MDP), or both. Blood monocytes incubated in endotoxin-free medium containing up to 1000 U/ml of r-IFN- or in medium containing less than 1 g/ml of nor MDP were not activated to lyse radiolabeled allogeneic human tumor cells. In contrast, the incubation of monocytes with various dose combinations of r-IFN- and nor-MDP generated significant direct cytotoxic activity as well as production of TCF. Preincubation of the r-IFN- and nor-MDP mixture with polymyxin B did not inhibit the synergism, thus ruling out the possibility that the process was due to endotoxin contamination. TCF harvested from monocyte culture supernatants was cytolytic against five allogeneic tumor targets, but not against a nontumorigenic cell line. Collectively, the data demonstrate that r-IFN- can prime human blood monocytes to allow their activation by synthetic nor-MDP.On leave from the Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine, Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima 770, Japan |
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