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Mouse macrophages carrying both subunits of the human interferon-gamma ( IFN-gamma) receptor respond to human IFN-gamma but do not acquire full protection against viral cytopathic effect.

Studies of hamster-human and mouse-human somatic fibroblast hybrids and transfected mouse fibroblasts have demonstrated that signaling through the human interferon-gamma receptor (hu-IFN-gammaR) requires the formation of a complex consisting of ligand ( IFN-gamma), a ligand binding receptor chain (IFN-gammaR1), and a signal transducing receptor chain (IFN-gammaR2). To date, the ability of this receptor complex to transduce the full repertoire of biological signals has been difficult to assess due to the limited number of activities that IFN-gamma can exert on fibroblasts. The current report assesses the ability of hu-IFN-gammaR chains to transduce signals in the absence of background human gene products by expressing hu-IFN-gammaR2 in a transformed macrophage cell line ( F10/96) derived from a hu-IFN-gammaR1 transgenic mouse. Our results indicate that F10/96 clones expressing both human receptor proteins bind hu- IFN-gamma with an affinity comparable to that of human cells. Binding of either human or mouse IFN-gamma to its respective receptor elicits classic IFN-gamma responses such as up-regulation of major histocompatibility complex antigens, enhanced expression of IRF-1, and increased production of NO2- radicals, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor. However, hu- IFN-gamma could not fully protect the clones from cytopathic effects of encephalomyocarditis virus and vesicular stomatitis virus while mo- IFN-gamma could. These results demonstrate that while co-expression of hu-IFN-gammaR1 and hu-IFN-gammaR2 is necessary and sufficient for most IFN-gamma-induced responses, it is not sufficient to confer a generalized antiviral state. These findings further suggest that additional species-specific accessory factor(s) are necessary for full signaling potential through the IFN-gamma receptor complex. The nature and potential role of such factors in IFN-gammaR signaling is discussed.[1]

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  1. Mouse macrophages carrying both subunits of the human interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) receptor respond to human IFN-gamma but do not acquire full protection against viral cytopathic effect. Lembo, D., Ricciardi-Castagnoli, P., Alber, G., Ozmen, L., Landolfo, S., Blüthmann, H., Dembic, Z., Kotenko, S.V., Cook, J.R., Pestka, S., Garotta, G. J. Biol. Chem. (1996) [Pubmed]
 
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