Fig. 2.
Sensitivity to type I IFN dose escalation. (A) Calu-3 cells were treated with increasing amounts of IFN-alpha prior to infection at an MOI of 0.01 for 24 h. Upper panel: titers and lower panel: data normalized to the nontreated control. Titer values below the detection level (dashed line) were set to 100 PFU/ml. (B) Regression analysis of the dose–response data shown in (A). Numbers underneath the virus names are estimators for the titers at 50 U/ml IFN, confidence intervals are given in brackets. All comparisons had P-values < 0.05. (C) Analysis of IFN dose–response curves in cells that were additionally pretreated with 1 µM Camostat. Note that for reasons of compatibility, pretreatment in (A) contained DMSO.