[Antiviral and antiproliferative activity of human fibroblast interferon fractions]

The affinity chromatography of Human crude beta-interferon preparations on Blue Dextran Sepharose columns resulted in isolation of several fractions with different ratio of antiviral to antiproliferative activities. The results of investigation of two of these fractions are described in this report. The first of them was eluted by 1N NaCl in 0.01 M tris buffer at pH 7.8, the second was eluted by 1 M NaCl, 50% methylethylenglycol in 0.01 M tris-HCl buffer at pH 7.8. The first of the fractions possessed presumably antiproliferative and the second presumably antiviral activity. Both fractions induced the increase of 2'5'-oligoadenylatesynthetase activity in cells although the inducing activity of the first fraction was about 6-fold higher than that of the second one as compared with their antiviral activities. The obtained results indicate that purification of interferon preparation for interferons main antiviral activity may lead to the loss of the great part of antiproliferative material.