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. 1993 Feb;91(2):241–248. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1993.tb05890.x

Differential requirements for HIV-1 replication in naive and memory CD4 T cells from asymptomatic HIV-1 seropositive carriers and AIDS patients.

A Cayota 1, F Vuillier 1, D Scott-Algara 1, V Feuillie 1, G Dighiero 1
PMCID: PMC1554680  PMID: 8094041

Abstract

One of the major routes for modulating HIV-1 expression by infected T cells is through the control of transcription initiation from the HIV-1 long terminal repeat (LTR), which is regulated either by its own viral gene products or by several cellular DNA-binding proteins induced during T cell activation. Previous work reported preferential HIV-1 infection and replication of memory CD4 T cells from infected individuals, which was explained either by a higher viral burden of this subset or by differences between naive and memory cells in the activation of the general transcription machinery involved in HIV-1 replication. In this work, we have studied HIV-1 replication by highly purified naive and memory CD4 T cells from asymptomatic seropositive carriers (ASC) and AIDS patients following different activation signals. Our results demonstrate that viral replication in memory cells from ASC was observed after mitogenic (phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) and/or phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)) recombinant tumour necrosis factor-alpha (rTNF-alpha) and CD3-mediated activation. In contrast, in naive subsets, early viral replication was almost exclusively observed upon CD3-mediated activation. AIDS patients are characterized by similar levels of viral replication in both subsets after PHA and soluble or immobilized anti-CD3 MoAb activation. However, naive subsets from AIDS patients still displayed differential requirements since they failed to replicate HIV-1 after treatment with PMA and rTNF-alpha. Taken together, these results provide evidence that HIV-1 replication in CD4+ T cells from infected individuals is a function of the differentiation stage of the cells, the disease stage of the patient and the activation signal employed.

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