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Journal of Virology, September 2001, p. 8842-8847, Vol. 75, No. 18
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.18.8842-8847.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Cytopathicity of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type
1 Primary Isolates Depends on Coreceptor Usage and Not Patient
Disease Status
Jason F.
Kreisberg,1,2
David
Kwa,3,4
Birgit
Schramm,1,
Verena
Trautner,1,
Ruth
Connor,5
Hanneke
Schuitemaker,3,4
James I.
Mullins,6
Angélique B.
van't Wout,6 and
Mark A.
Goldsmith1,7,*
Gladstone Institute of Virology and
Immunology1 and Departments of
Physiology2 and
Medicine,7 University of California, San
Francisco, California 94141-9100; Department of Clinical
Viro-Immunology, Central Laboratory of The Netherlands Red Cross Blood
Transfusion Service,3 and Laboratory for
Experimental and Clinical Immunology, University of
Amsterdam,4 Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Rockefeller University, New
York, New York 100165; and Department of
Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle,
Washington 98195-77406
Received 28 March 2001/Accepted 8 June 2001
It has been hypothesized that human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) evolves toward increased cytopathicity in conjunction with
disease progression in infected patients. A viral property known to
evolve in some but not all patients is coreceptor utilization, and it
has been shown that a switch in coreceptor utilization is sufficient
for the development of increased cytopathicity. To test the hypothesis
that the evolution of other viral properties also contributes to
accelerating cytopathicity in vivo, we used human lymphoid tissue
explants to assay the cytopathicity of a panel of primary HIV-1
isolates derived from various stages of disease characterized by the
presence or absence of changes in coreceptor preference. We found no
evidence of coreceptor-independent increases in cytopathicity in
isolates obtained either before coreceptor preference changes or from
patients who progressed to AIDS despite an absence of coreceptor
evolution. Instead, the cytopathicity of all HIV-1 isolates was
determined solely by their coreceptor utilization. These results argue
that HIV-1 does not evolve toward increased cytopathicity independently
of changes in coreceptor utilization.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Gladstone
Institute of Virology and Immunology, P.O. Box 419100, San Francisco,
CA 94141-9100. Phone: (415) 695-3775. Fax: (415) 695-1364. E-mail: mgoldsmith{at}gladstone.ucsf.edu.

Present address: Department of Virology, University of the Saarland
Medical School, Homburg-Saar,
Germany.

Present address: Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene,
University of Regensburg, Regensburg,
Germany.
Journal of Virology, September 2001, p. 8842-8847, Vol. 75, No. 18
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.18.8842-8847.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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