Interferon-neutralizing or enhancing activities in hybridoma cell fluids after in vitro immunization

Acta Virol. 1992 Aug;36(4):376-82.

Abstract

Several hybridomas supernatants capable of interferon beta (IFN-beta) or "IFN epsilon" ("IFN-eps") neutralizing or enhancing activities were obtained after in vitro immunization of BALB/c and C57 mice spleen cells and their fusion with Sp2/0 plasmacytoma cells. Besides rather low anti-IFN-beta or "eps" antibody secretion several cloned hybridoma fluids contained a factor potentiating anti-viral activity of the both IFNs. It is speculated that this activity is due to production by some hybridomas of another lymphokine.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Binding, Competitive
  • Female
  • Hybridomas / immunology
  • Immunization
  • Interferon-beta / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Interferon-beta / immunology*
  • Interferons / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Interferons / immunology*
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Mice, Inbred C3H
  • Neutralization Tests

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Interferon-beta
  • Interferons