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Journal of Virology, September 2001, p. 8195-8202, Vol. 75, No. 17
Divisions of Infectious
Diseases1 and Pulmonary and Critical
Care Medicine,5 Department of Internal Medicine,
and Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular
Biology,2 University of Michigan Medical Center,
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0640, and Department of
Microbiology, Pathology and Immunology3 and
Department of Medicine, Center for Infectious
Medicine,4 Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm,
Sweden
Received 25 January 2001/Accepted 21 May 2001
Production of the C-X-C chemokines interleukin-8 (IL-8) and
growth-regulated oncogene alpha (GRO-
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.17.8195-8202.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Interleukin-8 Stimulates Human Immunodeficiency
Virus Type 1 Replication and Is a Potential New Target for
Antiretroviral Therapy
and
) in macrophages is stimulated by exposure to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). We have
demonstrated previously that GRO-
then stimulates HIV-1 replication
in both T lymphocytes and macrophages. Here we demonstrate that IL-8
also stimulates HIV-1 replication in macrophages and T lymphocytes. We
further show that increased levels of IL-8 are present in the lymphoid
tissue of patients with AIDS. In addition, we demonstrate that
compounds which inhibit the actions of IL-8 and GRO-
via their
receptors, CXCR1 and CXCR2, also inhibit HIV-1 replication in both T
lymphocytes and macrophages, indicating potential therapeutic uses for
these compounds in HIV-1 infection and AIDS.
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: 5220 MSRB III,
1150 W. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0640. Phone: (734)
647-1786. Fax: (734) 764-0101. E-mail: dmarkov{at}umich.edu.
Present address: Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
90095-1922.
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