Both memory and CD45RA+/CD62L+ naive CD4+ T cells are infected in human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected individuals
Both memory and CD45RA+/CD62L+ naive CD4+ T cells are infected in human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected individuals
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DOI:
10.1128/jvi.73.8.6430-6435.1999
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发表时间:
1999-08-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
Fauci, AS
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作者:
Ostrowski, MA;Chun, TW;Fauci, AS
Cellular activation is critical for the propagation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. It has been suggested that truly naive CD4(+) T cells are resistant to productive HIV-1 infection because of their constitutive resting state. Memory and naive CD4(+) T-cell subsets from 11 HIV-1-infected individuals were isolated ex vivo by a combination of magnetic bead depletion and fluorescence-activated cell sorting techniques with stringent criteria of combined expression of CD45RA and CD62L to identify naive CD4(+) T-cell subsets. In all patients HIV-1 provirus could be detected within naive CD45RA(+)/CD62L(+) CD4(+) T cells; in addition, replication-competent HIV-1 was isolated from these cells upon CD4(+) T-cell stimulation in tissue cultures. Memory CD4(+) T cells had a median of fourfold more replication-competent virus and a median of sixfold more provirus than naive CD4(+) T cells. Overall, there was a median of 16-fold more integrated provirus identified in memory CD4(+) T cells than in naive CD4(+) T cells within a given patient. Interestingly, there was a trend toward equalization of viral loads in memory and naive CD4(+) T-cell subsets in those patients who harbored CXCR4-using (syncytium-inducing) viruses. Within any given patient, there was no selective usage of a particular coreceptor by virus isolated from memory versus naive CD4(+) T cells. Our findings suggest that naive CD4(+) T cells may be a significant viral reservoir for HIV, particularly in those patients harboring CXCR4-using viruses.