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Journal of Virology, November 2007, p. 12086-12090, Vol. 81, No. 21
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Identification of an Arsenic-Sensitive Block to Primate Lentiviral Infection of Human Dendritic Cells
Marjorie Pion,1
Romaine Stalder,1
Rafael Correa,1
Bastien Mangeat,1
Greg J. Towers,2 and
Vincent Piguet1*
Departments of Dermatology and Venereology and of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University Hospital and Medical School of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland,1
MRC Centre for Medical Molecular Virology, Department of Infection, Royal Free and University College Medical School, UCL, London W1T4JF, United Kingdom2
Received 13 April 2007/
Accepted 18 August 2007

ABSTRACT
Dendritic cells are central to the early events of human immunodeficiency
virus type 1 (HIV-1) transmission, but HIV-1 infects dendritic
cells inefficiently in vitro compared to activated CD4
+ T cells.
There is a strong postentry restriction of HIV-1 infection in
dendritic cells, partly mediated by the cellular restriction
factor APOBEC3G. Here, we reveal that arsenic trioxide markedly
increases HIV infection of immature and mature dendritic cells
as well as blood-derived myeloid dendritic cells in an APOBEC3G-
and TRIM5

-independent way. Our data suggest the presence of
powerful, arsenic-sensitive antiviral activities in primary
human immune cells of the dendritic cell lineage.

TEXT
Several model systems have indicated that a key event in the
early transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is
the transfer of virus from dendritic cells (DC) to CD4
+ T cells,
as reviewed in references
19,
33, and
38. However, high doses
of HIV are required to infect DC in vitro (
9,
16), as reviewed
in reference
24. In the absence of viral replication, DC, including
Langerhans cells, can capture and transfer HIV type 1 (HIV-1)
to CD4
+ T cells via an infectious synapse, which results in
high levels of infection (
1,
13,
20,
37). There is an early
block to HIV-1 entry into DC (
6,
9,
25), as well as a strong
postentry block to infection (
26). The TRIM5 and APOBEC families
have recently been shown to be able to block retroviral infection
in primate cells (
31,
35), as reviewed in references
5,
23,
and
32. Specifically, TRIM5

or APOBEC3G (A3G) can operate, at
least in some circumstances, after viral entry and prior to
viral integration (
7,
35). Human TRIM5

restricts HIV-1 only
weakly (
12,
35) and is not thought to have a strong impact on
HIV-1 infection or pathogenesis in vivo (
15,
28) The restriction
factors A3G and, to a lesser extent, APOBEC3F can restrict HIV-1
infection in DC (
26). The mechanism of A3G-mediated restriction
correlates with the presence of an active form of A3G in low-molecular-mass
(LMM) complexes in resting CD4
+ T cells (
7) and in DC (
26,
34).
Arsenic trioxide (As2O3) has been shown to increase retroviral infectivity in some cases of restricted infection, but the mechanisms by which it does this are not well understood. In some cases, arsenic has been shown to have an inhibitory effect on TRIM5 (2, 4, 17, 18, 27, 30). Here, we show that As2O3 treatment restores HIV-1 infectivity in immature DC (iDC) but not in the more permissive CD4+ T cells. The effect of arsenic on DC is specific to primate lentiviruses HIV-1 and HIV-2 and simian immunodeficiency virus from rhesus macaques (SIVmac) but not to the equine lentivirus equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV). Furthermore, it occurs independently of TRIM5
and A3G.
First, we assayed whether As2O3 affects HIV-1 replication in human iDC. iDC were generated by 6-day culture of monocytes in a mixture of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and interleukin-4 as described previously (8, 26). The iDC were then pretreated with As2O3 (2 µM) for 18 h, and groups of iDC were infected in parallel with a variety of HIV-1 strains using either CXCR4 or CCR5 coreceptors, as described previously (25) (Fig. 1). Remarkably, As2O3 treatment increased the percentage of HIV-infected DC by up to 50-fold, depending on the virus strain. As iDC express a relatively low quantity of HIV coreceptors in comparison to CD4+ T cells (25), we verified that As2O3 treatment did not result in the alteration of HIV receptor or coreceptor levels by quantitative fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) analysis of iDC as described previously (25). Modest changes in receptor and coreceptor levels induced by As2O3 could not explain the strong stimulation of HIV replication (data not shown). Furthermore, 1 or 2 µM As2O3 did not affect iDC viability, as determined by 7-amino-actinomycin D staining, and As2O3 did not affect the maturation state of iDC, as tested by FACS analysis of DC maturation markers CD83 and major histocompatibility complex class II (data not shown).
In order to test whether the route of viral entry influences
sensitivity to As
2O
3, we employed a single-round assay using
green fluorescent protein (GFP)-encoding HIV-1-derived lentivirus
vectors (lentivectors). We pseudotyped the vectors with HIV-1
envelope glycoproteins that use CCR5 (JRFL) or CXCR4 (HXB2),
as well as the G protein from vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV-G).
In this single-round assay, As
2O
3 (1 µM) stimulated HIV
infection of iDC very strongly, up to 150-fold compared to the
infection of untreated iDC, regardless of the viral envelope
or coreceptor usage (Fig.
2A and C). As
2O
3 (2 µM) also
stimulated the infection of lipopolysaccharide-matured DC with
HIV pseudotyped with VSV-G (Fig.
2C), as well as the infection
of blood-derived myeloid DC (MyDC) (Fig.
2B and C). MyDC were
extracted from buffy coats by using a CD1c DC isolation kit
according to the instructions of the manufacturer (Miltenyi
Biotec). Cells were maintained in Iscove modified Dulbecco's
Eagle medium supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum and granulocyte-macrophage
colony-stimulating factor (250 U/ml). Cells were >95% CD11c
+ and HLA-DR
+. Contamination with CD3
+ T cells was less than 5%
(data not shown). Treatment with arsenic (2 µM) also led
to a modest but reproducible stimulation of HIV infection, by
two- to threefold, in CD4
+ Jurkat cells, in agreement with previous
observations (
4). HIV infection of activated primary blood lymphocytes
was stimulated by As
2O
3 (2 µM) only at doses that were
close to toxicity (data not shown). Together, these results
show that As
2O
3 stimulates a postentry aspect of HIV infection
in primary human cells in a cell type-dependent manner.
Next, we assayed whether As
2O
3 generally enhances lentiviral
infection of iDC. We employed four different lentivectors encoding
GFP, HIV-1 (
21), HIV-2 (
10), SIVmac (
22), and EIAV (
14), each
pseudotyped with VSV-G, as described previously (
11). In a single-round
infection assay, each of these lentiviruses infected iDC with
very low efficiency, despite the high dose used. However, treatment
with As
2O
3 (2 µM) induced strong infection of iDC specifically
with the primate lentiviruses, HIV-1, HIV-2, and SIVmac (Fig.
3). In contrast, very low levels of EIAV infection were detected,
and these levels were not affected by As
2O
3 treatment (Fig.
3). This result may be because EIAV is insensitive to the factor
affected by arsenic but may also be because EIAV encounters
a further block after the first is relieved by arsenic treatment.
Previous studies have demonstrated that As
2O
3 increases the
reverse transcription of HIV-1 in cell lines. We therefore tested
whether As
2O
3 increases HIV-1 reverse transcription in iDC by
measuring early and late reverse transcription products by quantitative
PCR analysis of incoming HIV-1 pseudotyped with VSV-G. The results
demonstrated a strong stimulation of HIV reverse transcription
by As
2O
3 (2 µM) (Fig.
4A). We amplified reverse transcription
products using Power SYBR green master mix (Applied Biosystems),
forward primer 5'-CAGGATTCTTGCCTGGAGCTG-3' and reverse primer
5'-GGAGCAGCAGGAAGCACTATG-3' for early reverse transcription
products, and forward primer 5'-TGTGTGCCCGTCTGTTGTGT-3' and
reverse primer 5'-CGAGTCCTGCGTCGAGAGAT-3' for late reverse transcription
products. The ß-actin gene was amplified to measure
the DNA concentration. Each reaction was performed in triplicate,
results were normalized to those for the ß-actin gene,
and changes after arsenic treatment were calculated. The analysis
of integration of HIV-1 X4 strains showed a corresponding increase
after As
2O
3 treatment (data not shown). Thus, As
2O
3 acts at
an early postentry step in the infection of iDC with HIV to
increase the efficiency of reverse transcription and therefore
of integration and infection. The block to reverse transcription
that is eliminated by arsenic treatment may be due to an effect
on the uncoating or rearrangement of the virion that precedes
reverse transcription or a factor that blocks reverse transcription,
such as TRIM5

or A3G.
We previously reported that HIV-1 restriction in iDC is, at
least in part, due to the cellular restriction factors A3G and
APOBEC3F (
26). The LMM active form of A3G has been shown to
be active against HIV-1 in resting CD4
+ T cells (
7) and DC,
whereas the higher-molecular-mass (HMM) form is not (
26). Using
an assay that we described previously (
26), we therefore tested
whether the ratio between the HMM and LMM forms of A3G present
in DC was modulated by treatment with As
2O
3 (2 µM). We
separated the A3G LMM fraction in the supernatant (SN) from
the HMM form of A3G, which remains in the pellet (P) fraction,
and measured A3G protein levels by Western blotting as described
previously (
26). We showed that A3G was present exclusively
in the P fractions from cells highly sensitive to HIV infection,
such as H9 CD4
+ T cells, and no A3G was detected in the SN fractions
(Fig.
4Bi). In contrast, the A3G distribution in monocytes restrictive
of HIV infection showed a strong proportion of A3G in the SN,
as previously reported (
26). Treatment with As
2O
3 did not significantly
change the distribution of A3G in the SN and P fractions from
immature and mature DC (Fig.
4B).
Several reports suggest that As2O3 inhibits TRIM5
-mediated restriction, at least in some cell types (3, 4, 18, 27, 29, 30, 36). To seek a contribution of TRIM5
to the restriction of HIV infection of iDC and its suppression by As2O3, we measured the levels of TRIM5
in iDC by Western blotting. As2O3 treatment did not affect the levels of TRIM5
(Fig. 4C, panel i) but led to a significant enhancement of the infection of iDC with HIV-1 pseudotyped with VSV-G (Fig. 4C, panel ii). Furthermore, the reduction of TRIM5
expression by approximately 80% using RNA interference did not lead to the stimulation of HIV infection (Fig. 4C). We therefore conclude that As2O3 inhibits a very potent postentry restriction in iDC that is likely to be independent from A3G and TRIM5
.
In conclusion, we have shown that arsenic trioxide eliminates a potent postentry restriction of HIV infection of iDC, lipopolysaccharide-matured DC, and MyDC. The effect of As2O3 on iDC is independent of the viral envelope used and operates independently of the restriction factors A3G and TRIM5
. The stimulation of infectivity in DC by arsenic occurs postentry, at the level of reverse transcription. The mechanisms of stimulation remain unclear, but it is possible that cell type-specific antiviral factors act to limit viral infection of DC and that these factors are inhibited by arsenic treatment. Understanding the molecular details of the mechanism of restriction and sensitivity to arsenic is likely to be important for the development of novel therapeutic strategies and the improvement of animal models for HIV sexual transmission.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank L. Ylinen, T. Schaller, D. Littman, D. Trono, J. Sodroski,
F. L. Cosset, J. Stoye, K. Mitrophanous, and A. Lever for reagents
and F. Leuba for excellent technical help. We thank the Genomics
Platform of the NCCR program Frontiers in Genetics, University
of Geneva, for help with PCR experiments.
This work was supported by the Geneva Cancer League and Swiss National Science Foundation and by grants from the Human Science Frontier Program to V.P. and from the Wellcome Trust to G.J.T.

FOOTNOTES
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University Hospital and Medical School of Geneva, 4-712, 24 Rue Micheli-du-Crest, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland. Phone: (4122) 372.94.65. Fax: (4122) 372.94.70. E-mail:
vincent.piguet{at}medecine.unige.ch 
Published ahead of print on 29 August 2007. 

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