Cooperative effects of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope variable loops V1 and V3 in mediating infectivity for T cells.
AUTOR(ES)
Carrillo, A
RESUMO
Insertion of T-cell line-tropic V3 and V4 loops from the HXB2 strain into the macrophage-tropic YU-2 envelope resulted in a virus with delayed infectivity for HUT78 and Jurkat cells compared with HXB2. Sequence analysis of viral DNA derived from long-term cultures of Jurkat cells revealed a specific mutation that changed a highly conserved Asn residue in the V1 loop of Env to an Asp residue (N-136-->D). Introduction of this mutation into clones containing a T-cell line-tropic V3 loop, either with or without a T-cell line-tropic V4 loop, resulted in viruses that replicated to high levels in Jurkat cells and peripheral blood lymphocytes. The Env proteins from these constructs were expressed with the vaccinia virus/T7 hybrid system and were found to be translated, processed, and cleaved and to bind to soluble CD4 similar to the wild-type HXB2 and YU-2 Env proteins. Env-mediated fusion with HeLa T4+ cells, however, was regulated by both the altered V1 loop and T-cell line-tropic V3 loop. These results suggest that subsequent to the initial gp120-CD4 binding event, a functional interaction can occur between the altered V1 loop and T-cell line-tropic V3 loop that results in infection of Jurkat cells and peripheral blood lymphocytes.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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