摘要:Binding activities of a recombinant human interferon-γ (IFN-γ) preparation with 5 human tumor cell lines, including lung large cell carcinoma PC-13, lung small cell carcinoma QG-90, amelanotic melanoma HMV-1, renal carcinoma ACHN and Burkitt lymphoma Daudi, were compared with those of IFN-α2a. Three out of five human tumor cell lines, ACHN, HMV-1, and QG-90, were highly susceptible to IFN-γ : the concentrations required to inhibit 50% of the growth of cells (IC50) of ACHN, HMV-1, and QG-90 were 26, 11 and 7 pM, respectively. IFN-α2a also markedly inhibited the growth of ACHN, HMV-1 and Daudi cells : the values of IC50 for the former and latter cells were 20, 31 and 0.8 pM, respectively. With these susceptible cells, larger amounts of IFN-γ were bound than with resistant cells. On the other hand, IFN-α2a bound all cell lines, irrespective of the susceptibilities of cells. The values of the apparent dissociation constant (Kd) of binding of both IFNs ranged from 1.3 to 7.3×10-10M. The competitive binding test revealed that the binding properties of IFN-γ were different from those of IFN-α2a. Under the present experimental condition, it could be said that, with IFN-γ, the susceptibilities of cells were linked of the expression of the receptors, but there were some exceptions with IFN-α2a.