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Journal of Virology, August 2006, p. 7769-7774, Vol. 80, No. 15
0022-538X/06/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/JVI.02427-05
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Molecular Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota,1 Department of Virology, University College London, London, United Kingdom,2 Debiopharm, 1000 Lausanne, Switzerland,3 Department of Immunology and Molecular Pathology, University College London, London, United Kingdom4
Received 17 November 2005/ Accepted 25 April 2006
Murine primary cells are poorly permissive to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) vector infection. Retroviral infectivity is influenced by dominant inhibitors such as TRIM5
. Sensitivity to TRIM5
is altered by interactions between cyclophilin A and the HIV-1 capsid. Here we demonstrate that competitive inhibitors of cyclophilins, cyclosporine or the related Debio-025, stimulate HIV-1 vector transduction of primary murine cells, including bone marrow and macrophages, up to 20-fold. Unexpectedly, the infectivity of an HIV-1 mutant or a simian lentivirus that does not recruit cyclophilin A is also stimulated by these drugs. We propose that cyclosporine and related compounds will be useful tools for experimental infection of murine primary cells. It is possible that HIV-1 infection of murine cells is inhibited by dominant factors related to immunophilins.
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