Fig. 1.
PNU156804 disrupts cell growth of activated, but not of unactivated, human T cells in a dose-dependent manner.
Proliferation of quiescent PHA-activated human T cells (5.0 × 104 cells/well) in the presence of 1 nM IL-2 was examined after treatment with increasing concentrations of PNU156804 (●) or inactive control PNU159744 (♦) for 16 hours at 37°C. Conversely, Jurkat cells were treated in an identical fashion with PNU156804 (▴). All cells were then pulsed with [3H]-thymidine (0.5 μCi [0.0185 MBq]/200 μL) for 4 hours, incorporated into a radiolabeled probe, and plotted on the abscissa expressed as total cpm (n = 6).