Figure 4.
Infection of NKT cells by HIV-1. SEB-stimulated CD4+ T cells and α-GalCer stimulated NKT cell cultures were described in Fig. 1 legend. Activated NKT cells were further sorted into CD4+ and CD4− subsets. At days 7–10 after activation cells were infected with: (A) GFP-encoding R5-tropic, X4-tropic viruses, or VSV-G pseudotyped HIV vector at MOI of 1. After 3 d, cells were stained with anti-CD4-PE, fixed with 2% paraformaldehyde, and GFP expression was analyzed by FACS®. (B) Cells were also infected with HSA-encoding nef + R5-tropic viruses at MOI 1 and 0.01. After 3 and 5 d after infection, cells were stained with FITC-conjugated anti–mouse HSA, fixed with 2% paraformaldehyde, and HSA expression was analyzed by FACS®.