PMID: 6162789Jan 1, 1981Paper

Generation of lipopolysaccharide-induced interferon in spleen cell cultures. I. Genetic analysis and cellular requirements

Immunogenetics
O AscherD H Pluznik

Abstract

Incubation of murine spleen-cell cultures with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces interferon (IF) production. Maximal IF levels are obtained after incubation with 100 microgram/ml for 10 h. Two inbred mouse strains differing in their ability to generate LPS-induced IF in spleen-cell cultures were used: C3H/eB, which generates high levels of IF (about 60 units/ml), and C3H/HeJ, which fails to generate detectable quantities of IF. In a genetic analysis these strains were hybridized and IF production was determined in spleen-cell cultures from F1 and F2 generations, and from backcrosses of F1 hybrids to parent strains. The results indicate that, in parent strains, a single dominant autosomal gene is responsible for differences in IF production in spleen cultures. LPS-induced IF in spleen-cell cultures resists pH 2 for as long as 48 h, but is labile to heating at 56 degrees C for 30 min. Both macrophages and lymphocytes must be present in cultures for generation of LPS-induced IF. By using mixed cultures of macrophages and lymphocytes from C3H/eB and C3H/HeJ mice, it was shown that macrophages have to interact directly with LPS to enable IF production in the cultures.

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