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Journal of Virology, September 1998, p. 7603-7608, Vol. 72, No. 9
Montana Biotechnology Center, The University
of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812
Received 3 April 1998/Accepted 8 June 1998
The differential use of CC chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) and CXC
chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4) may be intimately involved in the
transmission and progression of human immunodeficiency virus infection.
Changes in coreceptor utilization have also been noted upon adaptation
of primary isolates (PI) to growth in established T-cell lines. All of
the T-cell line-adapted (TCLA) viruses studied to date utilize CXCR4
but not CCR5. This observation had been suggested as an explanation for
the sensitivity of TCLA, but not PI, viruses to neutralization by
recombinant gp120 antisera and V3-directed monoclonal antibodies, but
recent studies have shown coreceptor utilization to be independent of
neutralization sensitivity. Here we describe a newly isolated TCLA
virus that is sensitive to neutralization but continues to utilize both
CXCR4 and CCR5 for infection. This finding further divorces coreceptor
specificity from neutralization sensitivity and from certain changes in
cell tropism. That the TCLA virus can continue to utilize CCR5 despite the changes that occur upon adaptation and in the apparent absence of
CCR5 expression in the FDA/H9 T-cell line suggests that the interaction
between envelope protein and coreceptor may be mediated by multiple
weak interactions along a diffuse surface.
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Continued Utilization of CCR5 Coreceptor by a Newly Derived
T-Cell Line-Adapted Isolate of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type
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Biotechnology Center, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812. Phone: (406) 243-6421. Fax: (406) 243-6425. E-mail:
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