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. 1987 May;84(9):2906–2910. doi: 10.1073/pnas.84.9.2906

Intracellular human gamma-interferon triggers an antiviral state in transformed murine L cells.

J Sancéau, P Sondermeyer, F Béranger, R Falcoff, C Vaquero
PMCID: PMC304769  PMID: 3033669

Abstract

Interaction of human gamma-interferon (IFN-gamma) with a cell-surface receptor is known to be essential for the cell to become resistant to viral infection. Here we demonstrate that IFN-gamma, when present inside the cell, is also capable of inducing a permanent antiviral state. Mouse cells transformed with a truncated human cDNA encoding a mature IFN-gamma protein lacking the signal peptide accumulate high levels of intracellular human IFN-gamma. Not only do these cells acquire a permanent resistance to viral infection, they also exhibit all the biochemical characteristics normally observed after exposure to exogenous IFN. The observed loss of species specificity normally associated with IFN-gamma suggests that this restriction is strictly dependent on the interaction of the molecule with the cell-surface receptor.

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