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Fatty acid acylated antibodies against virus suppress its reproduction in cells

A V Kabanov1, A V Ovcharenko, N S Melik-Hubarov

  • 1Research Center of Molecular Diagnostics, USSR Ministry of Health, Moscow.

FEBS Letters
|July 3, 1989
PubMed

A method for suppression of virus reproduction in cells using fatty acylated antiviral antibodies, which in contrast to non-modified antibodies are capable of intracellular penetration, has been suggested. The addition of stearoylated antiviral antibodies to influenza A/Chili virus-infected cells causes a 100-fold suppression of virus reproduction. Non-modified antibodies do not produce any effect on virus reproduction.

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