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Dissociation of unintegrated viral DNA accumulation from single-cell lysis induced by human immunodeficiency virus type 1.

Department of Cancer Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.

ABSTRACT

Acute cytopathic retroviral infections are accompanied by the accumulation, due to superinfection, of large amounts of unintegrated viral DNA in the cells. The cytopathic effects of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection are specific for cells that express the CD4 viral receptor and consist of syncytium formation and single-cell lysis. Here we investigated the relationship between superinfection and single-cell lysis by HIV-1. Antiviral agents were added to C8166 or Jurkat lymphocytes after HIV-1 infection had occurred. Treatment with azidothymidine or a neutralizing anti-gp120 monoclonal antibody reduced or eliminated, respectively, the formation of unintegrated viral DNA but did not inhibit single-cell killing. Furthermore, in the infected Jurkat cells, the levels of unintegrated viral DNA peaked several days before significant single-cell lysis was observed. Essentially complete superinfection resistance was established before the occurrence of single-cell killing. These results demonstrate that single-cell lysis by HIV-1 can be dissociated from superinfection and unintegrated viral DNA accumulation. These results also indicate that single-cell killing may involve envelope glycoprotein-receptor interactions not accessible to the exterior of the cell.

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