Envelope-Dependent Restriction of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Spreading in CD4+ T Lymphocytes: R5 but Not X4 Viruses Replicate in the Absence of T-Cell Receptor Restimulation

AUTOR(ES)

Vicenzi, Elisa

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replicates in activated CD4+ T lymphocytes. However, only CD4+ Th2 and Th0, but not Th1, CD4+ T-cell clones have been reported to efficiently support HIV-1 replication. This dichotomous pattern was further investigated in the present study in Th1, Th2, or Th0 cell lines derived from umbilical human cord blood and in T-cell clones obtained from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of healthy adults. Both primary and laboratory-adapted HIV-1 strains with CCR5 as the exclusive entry coreceptor (R5 viruses) efficiently replicated in Th1, Th2, and Th0 cells. In sharp contrast, CXCR4-dependent (X4) viruses poorly replicated in both polarized and unpolarized CD4+ T cells, including adults’ PBMC infected several days after mitogenic stimulation. Unlike the X4 HIV-1NL4-3, a chimera in which the env gene had been replaced with that of the R5 HIV-1NL(AD8), efficiently replicated in both Th1 and Th2 cells. This X4-dependent restriction of HIV replication was not explained by either the absence of functional CXCR4 on the cell surface or by the inefficient viral entry and reverse transcription. T-cell receptor stimulation by anti-CD3 monoclonal antibodies fully rescued X4 HIV-1 replication in both Th1 and Th2 cells, whereas it did not alter the extent and kinetics of R5 HIV-1 spreading. Thus, R5 HIVs show a replicative advantage in comparison to X4 viruses in their ability to efficiently propagate among suboptimally activated T lymphocytes, regardless of their polarized or unpolarized functional profiles. This observation may help to explain the absolute predominance of R5 HIVs over X4 viruses observed after viral transmission and during early-stage disease.

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