• 1 January 1983
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 43 (11), 5484-5488
Abstract
When normal or transformed human fibroblasts are incubated with actinomycin D, RNA synthesis is irreversibly inhibited, and the treated cells eventually die. This cell-killing effect of actinomycin D is significantly ehnanced by pretreating the cells with human interferon. This effect of interferon is species-specific and appears to be under the control of gene(s) located on human chromosome 21. Enhancement of cell killing effect of cis-platinum by interferon pretreatment is also observed.