Journal article

Alpha Interferon Induces Long-Lasting Refractoriness of JAK-STAT Signaling in the Mouse Liver through Induction of USP18/UBP43

Magdalena Sarasin-Filipowicz, Xueya Wang, Ming Yan, Francois HT Duong, Valeria Poli, Douglas J Hilton, Dong-Er Zhang, Markus H Heim

MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY | AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY | Published : 2009

Abstract

Recombinant alpha interferon (IFN-alpha) is used for the treatment of viral hepatitis and some forms of cancer. During these therapies IFN-alpha is injected once daily or every second day for several months. Recently, the long-acting pegylated IFN-alpha (pegIFN-alpha) has replaced standard IFN-alpha in therapies of chronic hepatitis C because it is more effective, supposedly by inducing a long-lasting activation of IFN signaling pathways. IFN signaling in cultured cells, however, becomes refractory within hours, and little is known about the pharmacodynamic effects of continuously high IFN-alpha serum concentrations. To investigate the behavior of the IFN system in vivo, we repeatedly inject..

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Funding Acknowledgements

This study was supported by Swiss National Science foundation grant 320000-116106, Swiss Cancer League grant KLS-01832-02-2006, Krebsliga Basel grant 8/05, and National Institutes of Health grant HL091549 (D.-E. Z.),as well as by a grant from the Roche Research Foundation (M.S.-F.).