Scientific Publications
- PMID: 25809903
- Title: HIV 1 non macrophage tropic R5 envelope glycoproteins are not more tropic for entry into primary CD4 T cells than envelopes highly adapted for macrophages
- Abstract: Non-mac-tropic HIV-1 R5 viruses are predominantly transmitted and persist in immune tissue even in AIDS patients who carry highly mac-tropic variants in the brain. Non-mac-tropic R5 envelopes (Envs) require high CD4 levels for infection contrasting with highly mac-tropic Envs, which interact more efficiently with CD4 and mediate infection of macrophages that express low CD4. Non-mac-tropic R5 Envs predominantly target T-cells during transmission and in immune tissue where they must outcompete mac-tropic variants. Here, we investigated whether Env+ pseudoviruses bearing transmitted/founder (T/F), early and late disease non-mac-tropic R5 envelopes mediated more efficient infection of CD4+ T-cells compared to those with highly mac-tropic Envs.
- Date: 1970-08-22
- Year: 2015
- Journal: Retrovirology
- PMID Author: Musich T, O'Connell O, Gonzalez-Perez MP, Derdeyn CA, Peters PJ, Clapham PR
- PMC Link #: PMC4373511
HIV 1 non macrophage tropic R5 envelope glycoproteins are not more tropic for entry into primary CD4 T cells than envelopes highly adapted for macrophages
HIV-1 non-macrophage-tropic R5 envelope glycoproteins are not more tropic for entry into primary CD4+ T-cells than envelopes highly adapted for macrophages. Retrovirology 2015;12:25 doi: 10.1186/s12977-015-0141-0
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