Therapeutical effect of modified adamantane copolymer compounds: study of molecular mechanisms.

Copolymers of N-polyvinylpyrrolidone-acrylic acid (AB-1) and adamantane derivatives are known to possess marked antiviral activity in in vitro and in ovo models. Among the constructed preparations of AB-1 modified by adamantane derivatives some, especially AB-4 (modified by deitiforin), were found to show more extended antiviral activity and to inhibit markedly virus reproduction in susceptible permissive cell cultures and chicken embryos. In AB-4 treated cells and allantoic sacs, virus titers (influenza virus, herpes virus, and HIV) and virus antigen concentration were decreased.

[The toxicity and interferon-inducing activity of the lipopolysaccharides of Cytophaga sp. (strains 81 and 92)].

The experiments on mice and cell culture of a kidney of green monkey Vero have shown that lipopolysaccharides (LPS) of the studied strains 81 and 92 of Cytophaga sp. were nontoxic. They were less active as compared to LPS of other Gram-negative bacteria as to interferon-inducing activity.

[The biological activity of a lipopolysaccharide from Ralstonia solanacearum ICMP 7859 and of its modified derivative].

Coordinational compound of the Ralstonia solanacearum ICMP 7859 lipopolysaccharide (LPS) with germanium was obtained. The derivative has lost to considerable extent its toxicity (as compared to the initial substance) but preserves immunomodulating activity, interferon-inducing one in particular. Lipid A modification has led to complete loss of interferon-inducing activity.

[The reproductive characteristics of human adenovirus type 2 in cultures of lymphoblastoid cells with B and T phenotypes].

A comparative characteristic of the reproduction process of type 2 human adenovirus in several lines of lymphoblastoid cells of B- and T-phenotype is presented. Formation of hexone and infectious virus in the cells of Jurkat, MT4, Raji lines was rather intensive and approached to that in the culture of the permissive epithelium cells Hep-2. These indices were much lower in the cultures of cells B 95-8 and MT4/BIII LBK which were chronically infected by VEB and HIV, accordingly and produced them that can evidence for the interference of Ad and VEB or Ad and HIV under superinfection of cells.