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Journal of Virology, March 2001, p. 2041-2050, Vol. 75, No. 5
Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Pathology, Harvard
Medical School,1 and Department of
Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public
Health,2 Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Received 21 July 2000/Accepted 1 December 2000
Naturally occurring human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) variants
require the presence of CD4 and specific chemokine receptors to enter a
cell. In the laboratory, HIV-1 variants that are capable of bypassing
CD4 and utilizing only the CCR5 chemokine receptor for virus entry have
been generated. Here we report that these CD4-independent viruses are
significantly more sensitive to neutralization by soluble CD4 and a
variety of antibodies. The same amino acid changes in the HIV-1 gp120
envelope glycoprotein determined CD4 independence and neutralization
sensitivity. The CD4-independent envelope glycoproteins exhibited
higher affinity for antibodies against CD4-induced gp120 epitopes but
not other neutralizing ligands. The CD4-independent envelope
glycoproteins did not exhibit increased lability relative to the
wild-type envelope glycoproteins. The utilization of two receptors
apparently allows HIV-1 to maintain a more neutralization-resistant
state prior to engaging CD4 on the target cell, explaining the rarity
of CD4 independence in wild-type HIV-1.
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.5.2041-2050.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Increased Neutralization Sensitivity of
CD4-Independent Human Immunodeficiency Virus Variants
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney
St., JFB 824, Boston, MA 02115. Phone: (617) 632-3371. Fax: (617)
632-4338. E-mail: joseph_sodroski{at}dfci.harvard.edu.
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