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J Virol. 1990 May; 64(5): 2149-2156

Human immunodeficiency virus envelope glycoprotein/CD4-mediated fusion of nonprimate cells with human cells.

P A Ashorn, E A Berger and B Moss

Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

ABSTRACT

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infects human cells by binding to surface CD4 molecules and directly fusing with the cell membrane. Although mouse cells expressing human CD4 bind HIV, they do not become infected, apparently because of a block in membrane fusion. To study this problem, we constructed a recombinant vaccinia virus that can infect and promote transient expression of full-length CD4 in mammalian cells. This virus, together with another vaccinia recombinant encoding biologically active HIV envelope glycoprotein gp160, allowed us to study CD4/gp160-mediated cell-cell fusion in a wide variety of human and nonhuman cells in the absence of other HIV proteins. By using syncytium formation assays in which a single cell type expressed both CD4 and gp160, we demonstrated membrane fusion in lymphoid and nonlymphoid human cells but not in any of the 23 tested nonhuman cell types, derived from African green monkey, baboon, rabbit, hamster, rat, or mouse. However, in mixing experiments with one cell type expressing CD4 and the other cell type expressing gp160, all of these nonhuman cells could form CD4/gp160-mediated syncytia when mixed with human cells; in 20 of 23 cases, membrane fusion occurred only if the CD4 molecule was expressed on the human cells whereas in the other three cases, CD4 could be expressed on either one of the fusing partners. Interestingly, in one mouse cell line, CD4-dependent syncytia formed without a human partner, but only if a C-terminally truncated form of the HIV envelope glycoprotein was employed. Our results indicate that nonhuman cells are intrinsically capable of undergoing CD4/gp160-mediated membrane fusion, but this fusion is usually prevented by the lack of helper or the presence of inhibitory factors in the nonhuman cell membranes.

J Virol. 1990 May; 64(5): 2149-2156




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