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S V Gein1,2, O A Kochina3, M S Kuyukina3,4
1Institute of Ecology and Genetics of Microorganisms, Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Perm, Russia. gein@iegm.ru.
Abstract:
The glycolipid biosurfactant complex from actinobacterium Rhodococcus ruber IEGM 231 inhibits the innate and adaptive immunity parameters after intraperitoneal and intramuscular injection. Marked suppression of antibody production, bactericidal potential, and production of proinflammatory cytokines by peritoneal macrophages, detected in vivo, do not agree with the previously detected immunostimulatory activity of biosurfactants towards the immunocompetent cell cultures; this fact indicates an important role of the cell environment in the formation of immune response under the effect of bacterial glycolipids.
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