Abstract
Human lung carcinoma cells persistently infected with mumps virus (Pc-10/MpV) were lysed with human peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes (PBML) obtained from seropositive donors who had anti-mumps virus-neutralizing antibody in their sera. This cellular cytotoxicity was due not to the cytotoxic T lymphocytes but mainly to the non-T, non-B cells, possibly related to natural killer (NK) cells. Moreover, it was concerned not with antibody against mumps virus antigens but with alpha-interferon (IFN-alpha) produced in the mixture of human PBML and Pc-10/MpV cells, since this cellular cytotoxicity was suppressed by anti-human IFN-alpha rabbit serum. Exogeneous IFN-alpha augmented the cytotoxicity of non-T, non-B cells, not T cells, for the uninfected Pc-10 cells. IFN-gamma that had been induced by heat-killed Listeria monocytogenes in PBML had the same capacity to augment NK activity did IFN-alpha.
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