Tumor necrosis factor antagonizes inhibitory effect of azidothymidine on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replication in vitro - PubMed (original) (raw)

Tumor necrosis factor antagonizes inhibitory effect of azidothymidine on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replication in vitro

M Ito et al. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1990.

Abstract

Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) completely reverses the activity of azidothymidine (AZT) against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in MOLT-4 cell cultures. The 50% effective concentration of AZT, required to protect MOLT-4 cells against the cytopathic effect of HIV-1, increased from 5.8 nM in the absence of TNF-alpha to greater than 125 microM in the presence of TNF-alpha (100 U/ml). TNF-alpha also antagonized the anti-HIV-1 activity of dideoxycytidine but did not markedly affect the anti-HIV-1 activity of dextran sulfate. The intracellular phosphorylation pattern of AZT was not changed upon the presence of TNF-alpha.

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