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J Virol, May 1998, p. 4243-4249, Vol. 72, No. 5
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Chemokine Receptor Utilization by Human
Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Isolates That Replicate in
Microglia
Joseph T. C.
Shieh,1
Andrew V.
Albright,1
Matthew
Sharron,2
Suzanne
Gartner,3
Julie
Strizki,1
Robert W.
Doms,2 and
Francisco
González-Scarano1,4,*
Departments of
Neurology,1
Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine,2 and
Microbiology,4 University of
Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University Medical
School, Baltimore, Maryland3
Received 24 September 1997/Accepted 29 January 1998
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ABSTRACT |
The role of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) strain variability
remains a key unanswered question in HIV dementia, a condition affecting around 20% of infected individuals. Several groups have shown that viruses within the central nervous system (CNS) of infected
patients constitute an independently evolving subset of HIV strains. A
potential explanation for the replication and sequestration of viruses
within the CNS is the preferential use of certain chemokine receptors
present in microglia. To determine the role of specific chemokine
coreceptors in infection of adult microglial cells, we obtained a small
panel of HIV type 1 brain isolates, as well as other HIV strains that
replicate well in cultured microglial cells. These viruses and
molecular clones of their envelopes were used in infections, in
cell-to-cell fusion assays, and in the construction of pseudotypes. The
results demonstrate the predominant use of CCR5, at least among the
major coreceptors, with minor use of CCR3 and CXCR4 by some of the
isolates or their envelope clones.
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INTRODUCTION |
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
dementia (HIVD), also called the AIDS dementia complex, is a primary
disorder of the central nervous system (CNS) that affects about 20% of
HIV-infected individuals (32). Although the pathogenesis of
HIVD has been the subject of many studies, there is no consensus on the
cause of brain dysfunction. Neuropathological and virological studies
have implicated brain microglial cells and microglia-derived giant
cells as the principal CNS cells infected with HIV (3, 35,
39), leading most investigators to believe that microglial cells
are the central element in the development of this complication.
Microglial cells may produce viral proteins that have neurotoxic
properties, or perhaps HIV-infected cells are induced to secrete
soluble neurotoxins like platelet-activating factor, tumor necrosis
factor alpha, or nitric oxide (15, 22, 23, 30).
A key unanswered question in the development of HIVD is the role of
viral strain variability. While only a proportion of infected individuals demonstrate CNS dysfunction, the relative contributions of
viral and host factors are unknown. Data from a number of groups have
indicated that HIV penetrates the CNS early during the course of
systemic HIV infection (5, 8). For example, HIV can be isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid of 50% of individuals early in
the course of infection, and HIV sequences obtained from the CNS
segregate independently of sequences prevalent in the systemic circulation (11, 17, 26, 40). One potential explanation for
the isolated evolution of HIV strains within the CNS is that replication within microglia results in adaptation of the virus for
this cell type (36).
Chemokine receptors, which were recently found to have an essential
role in mediating HIV entry in conjunction with CD4, are responsible
for some of the key differences in HIV cellular tropism (6, 9, 13,
14, 19). Isolates using CXCR4 as a coreceptor replicate in
peripheral blood lymphocytes and in some immortalized T-cell lines,
whereas HIV type 1 (HIV-1) isolates that replicate in monocyte-derived
macrophages (MDM) utilize CCR5, the second major HIV coreceptor
discovered. Several other chemokine receptors, like CCR3, and orphan
receptors such as STRL33 and GPR15 have been shown to have coreceptor
activity with different assays (10, 18, 29). The potential
role of these and other chemokine receptors in HIV pathogenesis is yet
to be explored.
Microglial cells express several chemokine receptors, including CCR3,
CCR5, and CXCR4 (25, 27). Therefore, viruses could theoretically use any of these coreceptors to enter microglial cells.
In fact, clearly T-cell line-tropic viruses like HIV-1HXB will replicate in some microglial preparations (36).
However, for the most part, viruses that replicate in microglial cells also replicate in MDM (36, 37), and they would be expected to at the very least use CCR5 as a coreceptor. However, He and collaborators (25) have recently suggested that utilization of CCR3 as a coreceptor is an important correlate of replication in
fetal microglial cells, since some viruses obtained from the brain
(JRFL and YU-2) (28) were capable of utilizing CCR3 in a
fusion assay, and antibodies against CCR3 inhibited infection of fetal
microglial cells.
To determine the role of chemokine coreceptors in infection of adult
microglial cells, we have obtained a small panel of brain isolates
(20, 21), as well as other HIV strains that replicate well
in cultured microglial cells. These viruses, as well as molecular clones of their envelope (env) genes, have been used in
infection and cell-to-cell fusion assays to determine their chemokine
coreceptor utilization. The results demonstrate the predominant use of
CCR5, at least among the major coreceptors so far identified, but with some use of CCR3 and CXCR4 by some envelope clones.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS |
Cells.
Microglial cultures were prepared as previously
described (1, 36, 41) from fresh adult human brain tissue
obtained from donors undergoing temporal lobectomy for
medication-resistant epilepsy. CD4-expressing human osteosarcoma
(HOS-CD4) cells engineered to express chemokine receptors were obtained
from the AIDS Reference Reagent Program. 293T and U87 cells were
obtained from M. Malim (Department of Microbiology, University of
Pennsylvania) and B. Doranz (Department of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine, University of Pennsylvania), respectively. The microglial
cells were maintained in M/M medium (Dulbecco's modified Eagle's
medium [DMEM] supplemented with 5% fetal bovine serum, 5% giant
cell tumor supernatant [IGEN Inc., Rockville, Md.]) as described
previously (36); 293T and U87 cells were maintained in DMEM
supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum with penicillin and
streptomycin (each at 100 U/ml).
HIV isolates.
The isolate HIV-1BORI, which was
obtained from an individual with a primary HIV-1 infection, was
provided by G. Shaw (University of Alabama, Birmingham).
HIV-1BORI-15 was selected by 15 sequential passages of the
parental BORI isolate in microglial cells (36). The primary
brain HIV-1 strains DS-br, RC-br, and KJ-br were isolated by S. Gartner
(20, 21) in MDM. Virus stocks of these isolates were
prepared in macrophages. Molecular HIV clone YU-2(RF-1), originally
cloned by Li et al. (28), was obtained from R. Fouchier (University of Pennsylvania). HIV-1Ada-M was obtained from
the AIDS repository. HIV-189.6 was obtained from R. Collman
(University of Pennsylvania) (7).
Microglial infection.
Microglial cells were plated in
24-well plates at a density of 2 × 105 cells/well and
infected with cell-free virus stocks standardized by
p24gag antigen content (34 ng/ml). The cultures
were exposed to the virus inocula for 16 h at 37°C; the inocula
were then removed and replaced by fresh medium. The culture
supernatants were removed at regular intervals, and fresh medium was
added. The supernatants were stored at
80°C until the
p24gag antigen concentration was measured with
an antigen capture assay (NEN DuPont, Boston, Mass.).
Infection of cells expressing chemokine coreceptors.
293T
cells expressing chemokine receptors were prepared by transiently
transfecting 3 × 105 cells/well in a six-well plate
with 2 µg each of pT4 (31), which expresses the CD4
molecule, and plasmids expressing CCR3 (34), CCR5
(9), or CXCR4 (19), using calcium phosphate. The
following day, transfected cells were replated in 96-well plates and
infected with cell-free virus stocks (73 ng of
p24gag viral antigen per ml). Cultures were
exposed to inocula for 5 h at 37°C. Culture supernatants were
removed on days 3, 6, and 8 after infection, and
p24gag antigen concentrations were measured (NEN
DuPont).
Approximately 2 × 104 HOS-CD4 cells expressing
chemokine coreceptors were plated in each well of a 24-well plate,
incubated overnight with 10 ng of p24gag of the
appropriate HIV-1 isolate, washed extensively with DMEM, and maintained
in DMEM supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum and 1 µg of puromycin
per ml. Supernatants from the infected cells were removed every 2 to 3 days to monitor p24gag antigen concentration.
PCR amplification of HIV env genes.
The
env genes from isolates HIV-1BORI-15,
HIV-1RC-br, HIV-1DS-br, and
HIV-1KJ-br were molecularly cloned from the genomic DNA
extracted from cultured human microglia 3 days after infection. HIV-1BORI was cloned from DNA extracted from infected
peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Plasmid YU-2(RF-1) was used to
clone the YU-2 envelope. The pCR3.1-JRFL env expression
vector was provided by B. Doranz (12), and the BaL
env expression plasmid was obtained from J. Moore (Aaron
Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York, N.Y.).
The
env genes were amplified by PCR using AmpliWax beads
(Perkin-Elmer, Norwalk, Conn.) in a DNA Thermal Cycler (Perkin-Elmer).
The reaction mixtures contained a total volume of 50 µl and were
composed of 1× PCR buffer II (Perkin-Elmer), 2.5 mM MgCl
2,
0.4
mM deoxynucleoside triphosphates, 1 µM each env 1 primer (5'
AGAAAGAGCAGAAGACAGTGGCAATGA
3') and env 2 primer (5'
TTTTGACCACTTGCCACCCAT 3'), and 2.5 U
of Amplitaq DNA polymerase
(Perkin-Elmer). The reaction conditions
were a denaturing step at
93°C for 1 min, 30 cycles with a denaturing
step of 93°C for
30 s, an annealing step of 62°C for 30 s, an
extension step
of 72°C for 4 min, and a final extension step of
72°C for 10 min.
The PCR products were visualized by agarose gel electrophoresis, and
bands of the appropriate size were purified by using
Geneclean (Bio
101, La Jolla, Calif.).
env PCR products from
HIV-1
BORI and HIV-1
BORI-15 were ligated by T/A
cloning into pCR2.1 (Invitrogen,
San Diego, Calif.), and those clones
in the proper orientation
were directionally subcloned into
pcDNA3.1(

) (Invitrogen) for
use in the fusion assays and for the
preparation of pseudotypes.
env PCR products from the brain
isolates were ligated by unidirectional
T/A cloning directly into
pCR3.1-Uni (Invitrogen). Individual
recombinants with full-length
inserts were then selected for use
in fusion and pseudotype assays,
based on restriction mapping.
The molecular clones were sequenced in the C2-V4 regions by using a
single primer, 5'-ACAGTACAATGTACACATGG-3'. The sequences
were analyzed by using CLUSTAL to ensure that each set of clones
were
derived from a distinct parent virus.
Western analysis.
293T cells (106) were infected
with vaccinia virus encoding T7 RNA polymerase (vTF1.1; a gift from B. Moss, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [NIAID])
to drive env expression and then transfected with envelope
clones and pNL4-3-LucR+E
(a gift from N. Landau, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center) as described below.
Twenty-four hours later, the cells were lysed in 1 ml of lysis buffer
(10 mM Tris [pH 7.5], 0.15 M NaCl, 2 mM EDTA, 0.5% Nonidet P-40,
aprotinin [2 µg/ml], phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride [50 µg/ml]),
and 30 µl was chromatographed in a sodium dodecyl sulfate-7.5%
polyacrylamide gel. The proteins were transferred to a polyvinylidene
difluoride membrane by using a semidry apparatus, then probed with a
rabbit polyclonal anti-gp120 serum (R2143; a gift of P. Earl, NIAID)
followed by horseradish peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-rabbit serum
(Boehringer Mannheim), and visualized by chemiluminescence (Amersham).
Fusion assays.
env clones were tested in a
cell-cell fusion assay (13, 33, 34) for the ability to
mediate fusion with various coreceptors. env-expressing effector cells
were mixed with target cells expressing CD4 and coreceptor. Effector
cells also contained vaccinia virus encoding T7 RNA polymerase (vTF1.1)
which drove luciferase production upon fusion with the target cells.
Effector cells were prepared by infecting 293T cells with vTF1.1 at a
multiplicity of infection of 10 for 45 min and then transfecting these
cells with constructs expressing env, using calcium
phosphate for 4 h. Effector cells were incubated overnight in
rifampin to inhibit vaccinia virus replication. Target cells were
prepared by transfecting QT6 cells with equal amounts of CD4 and
coreceptor plasmids (9, 19, 31, 34) for 4 h at 37°C
and incubated overnight. To assay for fusion, effector cells were
washed and mixed with target cells in the presence of rifampin and
cytosine arabinoside. Fusion proceeded for 9 h at 37°C, and
cells were lysed with 0.5% Nonidet P-40. Luciferase activity was
measured by adding 50 µl of lysate to 50 µl of luciferase substrate
(Promega) and determining chemiluminescence in a luminometer
(13).
Production of viral pseudotypes.
Pseudotypes were prepared
essentially as described by Deng et al. (9). In brief, 293T
cells were cotransfected by using calcium phosphate (5 Prime-3 Prime,
Boulder, Colo.) with equivalent amounts of
pNL4-3-LucR
E
or
pNL4-3-LucR+E
(gifts from N. Landau) together
with plasmids expressing the appropriate env gene. Cells
(3 × 105/well) were transfected in six-well plates
with 3 µg of each plasmid; alternatively, 106 cells were
transfected in 10-cm dishes with 15 µg of each plasmid. Supernatants
containing the pseudotyped viruses were collected 2 to 3 days later,
either centrifuged (10 min at 1,750 × g on a Beckman
centrifuge) or filtered through a 0.45-µm-pore-size filter to remove
cellular debris, and then stored at
80°C.
Infection of U87 cells with HIV pseudotypes.
U87 cells
(105/well) were plated and grown overnight in a 24-well
plate. The following day they were transfected with 2 µg each of pT4,
which expresses the CD4 molecule (31), and plasmids expressing the desired chemokine receptor. After 24 h, the
transfected cells were infected with 200 µl of pseudotyped virus in
the presence of Polybrene (8 µg/ml), and 500 µl of medium was added
16 to 24 h later. On the third day after the pseudotype infection,
the cells were lysed with 150 µl of buffer as instructed for the
Promega luciferase assay system. Luciferase activity was measured by
adding 50 µl of luciferase substrate to 20 µl of lysate in 75- by
12-mm tubes (Sarstedt) and reading light activity in a Lumat LB 9501 luminometer (Berthold). In all experiments, light activity is reported
as relative light units per 10 s.
Infection of microglia with pseudotyped virus.
Pseudotypes
expressing the HIV-1BaL envelope were prepared as indicated
above. Microglial cells were cultured in 96-well plates for 18 days and
then pretreated with anti-CCR5 antibody 45531.111 (R&D Systems,
Minneapolis, Minn.), anti-CCR3 antibody 7B11 (AIDS repository), or
anti-CXCR-4 antibody 12G5 (17) (obtained from J. Hoxie) at
20 µg/ml for 45 min at 4°C. The cells were then infected with 200 µl of pseudotyped virus for 16 h at 37°C, the medium was
replaced, and the cells were lysed 3 days later with 100 µl of lysis
buffer; then 40 µl was combined with 100 µl of luciferase substrate, and chemiluminescence read as indicated above.
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RESULTS |
Infections of microglial cultures with brain isolates.
Several
publications have documented the infectability of cultured adult
microglia with either primary or laboratory HIV-1 strains (36,
37). Since microglia are the principal cell type infected in the
brains of individuals with HIVD, we expected that most or all isolates
obtained from the brain would infect microglial cultures. Three HIV
isolates cultured from the brain tissue of two adults
(HIV-1RC-br and HIV-1DS-br) and one infant
(HIV-1KJ-br), all of whom had died with HIVD or HIV
encephalopathy, and a well-documented isolate from the frontal lobe
(HIV-1JRFL) were used to infect microglial tissue as
described in Materials and Methods. The p24gag
concentrations in the supernatants on day 17 after infection (which is
approximately the time of peak replication) are shown in Table
1. In addition, we used a control
dualtropic virus, HIV-189.6. All of the viruses replicated
in the microglial cultures, but infection with HIV-1KJ-br
resulted in consistently lower p24gag
concentrations in eight similar experiments using microglia obtained from different donors. In subsequent experiments, we also used two
related isolates, HIV-1BORI, a virus isolated during an
acute infection, and a derivative obtained by sequential passage in microglia (HIV-1BORI-15) that replicates to high titer and
induces giant syncytia in microglia (36).
Cytopathicity in microglial cultures.
The most characteristic
finding in HIV infection of the nervous system is the multinucleated
giant cell, which is thought to represent the fusion of infected
microglial cells. Multinucleated giant cell formation was also seen
following in vitro infection of microglial cultures (36,
37). Since the chemokine coreceptors are involved in cell-to-cell
fusion, we wanted to assess syncytium formation by the viruses used in
these experiments (Fig. 1). Cultures infected with the brain isolates HIV-1DS-br and
HIV-1RC-br (Fig. 1C and D) demonstrated marked
cytopathology, while HIV-1KJ-br-infected (Fig. 1B)
and mock-infected (Fig. 1A) microglial cultures had little or no
syncytium formation. These findings were repeated in assays of
microglial cultures from seven other donors. Similarly, infection with
HIV-1BORI induced little or no cytopathology, whereas infection with the sequentially passaged isolate induced extensive fusion (36).

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FIG. 1.
Multinucleated giant cell formation in uninfected
microglial cells (A) and in microglial cultures infected with
HIV-1KJ-br (B), HIV-1DS-br (C), or
HIV-1RC-br (D). Microglial cultures were infected as
described in Materials and Methods, and syncytium formation was
monitored 12 days after infection. Syncytium formation was also
quantified by counting the number of nuclei and the number of cells and
was consistent with these photomicrographs, which are representative of
seven experiments with each of the illustrated isolates.
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Three types of experiments were then performed to determine the
chemokine coreceptor utilization of those HIV isolates that
replicated
in the microglial cultures: (i) replication in 293T
cells transfected
with chemokine coreceptor molecules and CD4,
(ii) cloning and
expression of
env genes, which were then tested
in a
cell-to-cell fusion assay, and (iii) preparation and assay
of
pseudotyped viruses using the same cloned envelopes.
Replication in 293T cells transfected with chemokine
receptors.
We transfected 293T cells with CD4 and one of the major
chemokine coreceptors (CCR3, CCR5, or CXCR4), and used these cells in
infections as indicated in Materials and Methods. We first performed
fusion experiments with CCR3 and did not see any signal above
background with our env clones (see below). We then switched to CCR3P, which expresses CCR3 at up to 20-fold-higher levels than the
original construct (34). CCR3P was then used for all subsequent experiments, and all results reported here are for that
construct.
Infectivity was determined by assay for p24
gag 6 days after infection, and the values are reported in Table
2. All of the viruses
replicated in the
293T-CD4-CCR5 cells, but there was some variability
in the use of the
other coreceptors. For example, isolates HIV-1
DS-br and
HIV-1
YU-2 replicated in cells expressing CCR3
(high-expressing
construct CCR3P), whereas HIV-1
DS-br,
HIV-1
KJ-br, and HIV-1
BORI had p24 values above
background in the cells expressing CXCR4.
In related experiments, we also used a panel of HOS engineered to
express the HIV coreceptors (
9). This allowed us to
determine
whether CCR1, CCR2b, or CCR4 could be used by any of these
HIV
isolates. None of the isolates infected HOS cells expressing CD4
in
conjunction with these other coreceptors (data not shown).
The isolates
replicated in HOS-CCR5 cells but not in HOS-CCR3
cells. However, the
level of expression of CCR3 in those cells
is probably lower than in
the 293T cells transfected with the
CCR3P construct (
34).
These results indicated that the HIV-1 strains that replicated well in
the microglial cells could use CCR5 as a coreceptor.
However, the use
of other chemokine receptors remained in some
question, since we did
not determine whether all of the chemokine
receptors were expressed at
similar levels on the surface of the
293T cells. We therefore used
other assays to address the same
question.
Envelope-mediated cell-to-cell fusion.
The envelope genes from
the panel of HIV strains that replicated in microglia were then
molecularly cloned as described in Materials and Methods. Two to five
functional clones were obtained for each brain isolate.
For the cell-to-cell fusion assay, the
env gene was
expressed in 293T cells (effectors); these were fused with QT6 cells
(targets)
expressing the CD4 molecule together with one of several
coreceptor
molecules. The QT6 cells were also transfected with a
plasmid
expressing the luciferase gene under the control of the T7
promoter,
which was activated when cell fusion allowed the
translocation
of the T7 polymerase protein expressed in the effector
cells.
The extent of fusion was therefore quantified by
chemoluminescence.
Data from representative experiments are shown in Fig.
2. Three envelope clones obtained from
HIV-1
BORI-15 and one
env clone
obtained from
HIV-1
BORI clone all showed strong fusion with
CCR5-expressing
targets, as well as with CCR3-expressing targets (Fig.
2A). Control
envelopes from HIV-1
JRFL and
HIV-1
YU-2 fused cells expressing
either CCR5 or CCR3, as
previously reported (
6,
25). Expression
of other
coreceptors, including CCR1, CCR2, CCR4, and CXCR4, did
not lead to
fusion of HIV-1
BORI or HIV-1
BORI-15
env-expressing
cells (data not shown). These results
indicated that the pattern
of coreceptor utilization had not changed
after extensive passage
in microglia, in spite of the accelerated
replication and fusogenicity
of the passaged virus.

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FIG. 2.
Use of chemokine coreceptors in a cell-to-cell fusion
assay. (A) The env genes from isolates HIV-1BORI
and HIV-1BORI-15 were PCR amplified and cloned in an
expression vector as described in the text. Fusion assays were then
performed with QT6 cells transiently expressing several chemokine
coreceptors as previously described (13). Note that the CCR3
construct (CCR3P) was designed to increase surface expression. In this
assay, cell-to-cell fusion results in expression of the luciferase
gene, which is monitored by chemiluminescence (relative light units).
Three HIV-1BORI-15 envelope clones [BORI-15 (4C), BORI-15
(5C), and BORI-15 (7A)] and one HIV-1BORI envelope clone
[BORI (11A)] were used. Envelopes from HIV-1JRFL and
HIV-1YU-2, two viruses obtained directly from the brain,
were used as controls for expression of CCR3. The envelope genes from
brain isolates DS-br and RC-br were amplified and cloned as described
in the text, and a fusion assay was performed as described previously
(13). The envelope from the dualtropic isolate
HIV-189.6 was used as a control for expression of CCR3.
These experiments are representative of two to three assays performed
with these envelopes.
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Fusion assay with one
env clone of each brain-derived virus,
HIV-1
DS-br and HIV-1
RC-br, demonstrated that
these
env clones
in particular utilized CCR5 in fusion but
not CCR3 (Fig.
2B),
whereas the control dualtropic virus
HIV-1
89.6 could mediate fusion
with both CCR3-expressing
target cells and CCR5-expressing cells.
These fusion data suggested
that the envelopes from our brain-derived
viruses and microglial
cell-passaged virus could all utilize CCR5
but that the utilization of
CCR3 was not universally present.
env-pseudotyped virus infection of U87-MG cells.
To test the coreceptor utilization by envelope proteins in the context
of virions, we used a pseudotyped virus system described by Deng and
collaborators (9). env-pseudotyped
luciferase-expressing viruses were used to infect with U87 cells
transiently transfected with CD4 and various chemokine coreceptors.
Since in this system the nef gene has been replaced by the
luciferase gene, viral entry was quantified by measuring
chemiluminescence.
env clones from each of the viruses were individually tested
in multiple experiments, and the geometric mean was obtained
(Table
3).
Pseudotyped viruses containing the envelopes of HIV-1
BORI
or HIV-1
BORI-15 registered positive with target cells
expressing
CCR5 (as did the control pseudotypes using envelope from
HIV-1
BaL,
HIV-1
JRFL, and
HIV-1
YU-2). One clone obtained from
HIV-1
BORI-15 (4C) also used CCR3. This result is somewhat
different than that
obtained with the cell fusion assay (Fig.
2A),
perhaps because
of differences in expression and sensitivity.
Pseudotypes expressing
these envelopes did not register any activity
with target cells
expressing CXCR4. These results indicated that
adaptation to growth
in microglia, and induction of syncytia in that
cell type, did
not change the coreceptor utilization, which was
predominantly
CCR5.
The envelopes from the brain isolates HIV-1
DS-br,
HIV-1
RC-br, and HIV-1
KJ-br had a more
complex pattern. All of these
env clones had in common the
ability to mediate fusion with CCR5 when
used in the pseudotyped virus
assay, and this receptor gave the
highest level of chemiluminescence
for all of the clones. Nevertheless,
some of the
env clones
had the ability to utilize CCR3 or CXCR4
in addition to CCR5, although
always with a much lower signal.
We noted that the
HIV-1
JRFL envelope used both CCR3 and CCR5,
as previously
described (
25,
34), but in this assay the
HIV-1
YU-2 envelope did not use CCR3, unlike its behavior in
the fusion assay.
This discrepancy may reflect differences in the
sensitivity of
these assays.
To ensure that differences in luciferase activity noted with several of
the HIV-1
RC-br env clones in the pseudotype
assay
did not represent aberrant processing of the envelope, we used
a
Western analysis for selected clones (see Materials and Methods).
As
shown in Fig.
3, clones that resulted in
low levels of luciferase
activity [e.g., RC(52) and DS(12b)]
generated precursor and surface
(gp120) proteins of the appropriate
mobility.

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FIG. 3.
Western blot of selected env clones. Selected
env clones from the HIV-1RC-br and
HIV-1DS-br isolates were resolved by sodium dodecyl
sulfate-7.5% polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis transferred to a
polyvinylidene difluoride membrane, and probed with a polyclonal rabbit
anti-gp120 serum followed by peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-rabbit
serum, and the bound antibody was detected by enhanced
chemiluminescence (Amersham). Recombinant gp120 prepared in a
baculovirus system was used as a positive control (+ lane); the slight
difference in mobility may be due to differences in glycosylation.
"None" represents a lysate from cells transfected with
pNL4-3-LucR+E only. All of the env
clones analyzed resulted in proteins that were processed into gp120.
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Antibody blocking of microglial infection.
To determine
whether antibodies against CCR3, CCR5, and CXCR4 could block infection
of microglia, we used pseudotyped virus containing env from
HIV-1BaL. These pseudotypes registered positively with
cells expressing either CCR3 or CCR5 (Table 3) and were high titered,
making these pseudotypes particularly suitable for infection of a
primary cell. As shown in Fig. 4,
exposure of microglial cells with anti-CCR5 (45531) for 45 min prior to
infection resulted in a marked reduction in the luciferase activity.
Neither the anti-CCR3 antibody (7B11) nor the anti-CXCR4 antibody
(12G5) had a marked effect on infection. However, the anti-CCR3
antibody inhibited infection of HIV-1BaL pseudotypes in U87
cells transiently transfected with CD4 and CCR3 (data not shown).

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FIG. 4.
Blocking microglial infection with antibodies against
coreceptors. Monoclonal antibodies against CCR3, CCR5, and CXCR4 and a
control anti-human herpesvirus 6 p41 antibody (see Materials and
Methods for details) were used to block infection of cultured
microglial cells with pseudotyped virus expressing the
HIV-1BaL env. Three days after infection, the
cells were lysed, and levels of chemiluminescence were determined and
expressed as relative light units/10 s. The anti-CCR5 antibody was the
only one that had an effect on infection.
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DISCUSSION |
HIV infection of microglia appears to be an essential component of
HIVD, since this is the predominant cell type harboring HIV sequences
and expressing HIV proteins in the CNS of HIV-infected individuals
(3, 24, 38, 39). Several lines of evidence suggest that
strain variability could play a role in infection of microglial cells.
First, HIV infection of the CNS occurs only in a proportion of
HIV-infected individuals, in spite of the nearly universal presence of
macrophage-tropic strains, most of which can replicate at least to some
extent in microglia (36). Furthermore, studies from several
groups have documented that HIV sequences obtained from the CNS cluster
together, suggesting an independent evolution, perhaps even adaptation
for CNS replication (17, 26, 40). Finally, in vitro, some
HIV strains replicate preferentially in microglial cells rather than
MDM (36).
Chemokine receptor utilization is a key determinant of cellular tropism
(reviewed in reference 4), and since microglial cells express CCR3, CCR5, CXCR4, and perhaps other coreceptors, it is
reasonable to propose that differential utilization of chemokine coreceptors could be partly responsible for specific tropism for this
cell type. To determine whether in fact viruses that replicate well in
microglia have a unique pattern of utilization of chemokine coreceptors, we obtained three viruses cultured from the CNS of individuals with dementia or encephalopathy (the pediatric counterpart of HIVD) and one strain that had been adapted for microglial growth by
sequential passage. Infection of microglia with this adapted isolate
results in particularly large syncytia. These viruses were used to
infect cells engineered to express CD4 in conjunction with one of the
major coreceptors. Envelope clones from each isolate were then used in
a cell-to-cell fusion assay, and pseudotyped viruses were prepared.
All of the brain isolates as well as the isolate passaged in microglia
used CCR5 as the principal coreceptor in all of the assays, although
there was some replication in cells expressing CXCR4 or CCR3. This was
more noticeable in the isolate adapted to microglia
(HIV-1BORI-15), which used CCR3 in the fusion assay performed with a construct that expresses CCR3 well (CCR3P). One of the
env clones obtained from this virus also used CCR3 in the pseudotype assay. However, this pattern of chemokine receptor use was
similar to that of its parent (HIV-1BORI), indicating that
adaptation into a syncytium-forming phenotype for microglia was
not associated with alteration in the use of these major coreceptors. Nor was this pattern particularly unique for this virus, since many other isolates use multiple coreceptors, including CCR3 and STRL33
(2, 4, 10, 18, 29). Our data reinforce the importance of
CCR5 as a coreceptor for macrophage-like cells but do not exclude the
possibility that other coreceptors among the many recently described
could influence entry into microglial cells.
He et al. (25) recently reported that CCR3 and CCR5 function
as coreceptors for HIV-1 infection of fetal microglia and showed that
an antibody directed against CCR3 could inhibit infection of those
cells. While we found no compelling evidence for CCR3 predominance
among CNS viruses, our experiments were performed with several of the
same brain isolates in adult microglia. Perhaps the developmental stage
of the microglia or even the influence of other cell types present in
the experiments performed by He et al. may account for the
discrepancies between these two studies.
We were initially concerned that the isolation procedures for four of
the brain isolates or clones could have altered the chemokine
coreceptor use, and thus we obtained env clones from DNA
extracted from microglia, ensuring that they represent viruses that can
enter these cells. Although the results were reasonably uniform, there
was some variability among the clones (Table 3), suggesting that direct
cloning of envelopes from infected CNS might offer an alternative
approach for studies of the utilization of coreceptors in the brain.
This is an important area for future studies as the number of potential
coreceptors expands, since many of them are expressed in CNS tissues.
These experiments also stress the importance of studying coreceptor
utilization on primary cells and with multiple clones.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
A.V.A. and J.T.C.S. contributed equally to this work.
This work was supported by PHS grants NS-27405, NS-35743, training
grant AI-07325, and the Medical Scientist Training Program.
We thank E. Berger (NIAID) for the CXCR4 molecular clone, S. Peiper
(University of Louisville) for the CCR3 clone, M. Parmentier (Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium) for the CCR5 clone, N. Landau (Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center) for the pNL4-3-Luc vectors, J. Moore (Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center) for
the BaL env expression vector, P. Earl (NIAID) for the R2143 serum, and J. Hoxie (University of Pennsylvania) for the 12G5 antibody.
Other reagents were obtained from the AIDS Research Reference and
Reagent Program. We thank B. Doranz and other members of the Doms
laboratory for many helpful comments and advice, and we thank H. Sheng
for technical help.
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FOOTNOTES |
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Neurology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19104-6146. Phone: (215)
662-3389. Fax: (215) 573-2029. E-mail:
Scarano{at}mail.med.upenn.edu.
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