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J. Virol., 12 1996, 8355-8360, Vol 70, No. 12
G Simmons, D Wilkinson, JD Reeves, MT Dittmar, S Beddows, J Weber, G Carnegie, U Desselberger, PW Gray, RA Weiss and PR Clapham
A panel of primary syncytium-inducing (SI) human immunodeficiency virus
type 1 isolates that infected several CD4+ T-cell lines, including MT-2 and
C8166, were tested for infection of blood-derived macrophages. Infectivity
titers for C8166 cells and macrophages demonstrated that primary SI strains
infected macrophages much more efficiently than T- cell line-adapted HIV-1
strains such as LAI and RF. These primary SI strains were therefore
dual-tropic. Nine biological clones of two SI strains, prepared by limiting
dilution, had macrophage/C8166 infectivity ratios similar to those of their
parental viruses, indicating that the dual-tropic phenotype was not due to
a mixture of non-SI/macrophage-tropic and SI/T-cell tropic viruses. We
tested whether the primary SI strains used either Lestr (fusin) or CCR5 as
coreceptors. Infection of cat CCC/CD4 cells transiently expressing Lestr
supported infection by T-cell line-adapted strains including LAI, whereas
CCC/CD4 cells expressing CCR5 were sensitive to primary non-SI strains as
well as to the molecularly cloned strains SF-162 and JR-CSF. Several
primary SI strains, as well as the molecularly cloned dual- tropic viruses
89.6 and GUN-1, infected both Lestr+ and CCR5+ CCC/CD4 cells. Thus, these
viruses can choose between Lestr and CCR5 for entry into cells.
Interestingly, some dual-tropic primary SI strains that infected Lestr+
cells failed to infect CCR5+ cells, suggesting that these viruses may use
an alternative coreceptor for infection of macrophages. Alternatively, CCR5
may be processed or presented differently on cat cells so that entry of
some primary SI strains but not others is affected.
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Primary, syncytium-inducing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 isolates are dual-tropic and most can use either Lestr or CCR5 as coreceptors for virus entry
Virology Laboratory, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom.
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