MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS ENHANCES HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS-1 REPLICATION BY TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION AT THE LONG TERMINAL REPEAT
MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS ENHANCES HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS-1 REPLICATION BY TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION AT THE LONG TERMINAL REPEAT
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DOI:
10.1172/jci117924
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发表时间:
1995-05-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
ROM, WN
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作者:
ZHANG, YH;NAKATA, K;ROM, WN
Tuberculosis has emerged as an epidemic fueled by the large number of individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, especially those who are injecting drug users. We found a striking increase from 4- to 208-fold in p24 levels in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from involved sites of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection vs uninvolved sites in three HIV+ patients. We used an in vitro cell culture model to determine if tuberculosis could activate replication of HIV-1. Mononuclear phagocyte cell lines U937 and THP-1 infected with HIV-1(JR-CSF), in vitro and stimulated with live M. tuberculosis H37Ra, had a threefold increase in p24 in culture supernatants. Using the HTV-1 long terminal repeat with a chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) reporter construct, live M, tuberculosis increased transcription 20-fold in THP-1 cells, and cell wall components stimulated CAT expression to a lesser extent. The nuclear factor-kappa B enhancer element was responsible for the majority of the increased CAT activity although two upstream nuclear factor-IL6 sites may also contribute to enhanced transcription, Antibodies to TNF-alpha and IL-1 inhibited the increase in CAT activity of the HIV-1 long terminal repeat by M. tuberculosis from 21-fold to 8-fold. Stimulation of HIV-1 replication by M, tuberculosis may exacerbate dysfunction of the host immune response in dually infected individuals.