Gupta P, Balachandran R, Ho M, Enrico A, Rinaldo C
Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261.
J Virol. 1989 May;63(5):2361-5. doi: 10.1128/JVI.63.5.2361-2365.1989.
Very few peripheral blood lymphocytes of seropositive individuals are presumably actively infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). During coculture of lymphocytes of a seropositive individual with mitogen-stimulated normal peripheral blood lymphocytes, the number of infected cells becomes amplified such that detectable HIV-1 is produced. We report here that in addition to transmission by extracellular virus, cell-to-cell transmission is responsible for spreading HIV-1 infection from infected to uninfected cells. Azidothymidine and virus-neutralizing antibody had no effect on cell-to-cell transmission of HIV-1. Monoclonal antibodies to the CD4 receptor, but not to the CD3 receptor, prevented cell-to-cell transmission, which suggests that CD4 receptor-mediated cell fusion is involved in cell-to-cell transmission. Spread of infection in a cell-to-cell manner may be important in development of drug therapies for HIV-1 infection.
血清反应阳性个体的外周血淋巴细胞中,可能只有极少数被1型人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV-1)主动感染。在血清反应阳性个体的淋巴细胞与有丝分裂原刺激的正常外周血淋巴细胞共培养过程中,感染细胞的数量会增加,从而产生可检测到的HIV-1。我们在此报告,除了通过细胞外病毒传播外,细胞间传播也导致HIV-1感染从感染细胞扩散到未感染细胞。叠氮胸苷和病毒中和抗体对HIV-1的细胞间传播没有影响。针对CD4受体而非CD3受体的单克隆抗体可阻止细胞间传播,这表明CD4受体介导的细胞融合参与了细胞间传播。以细胞间方式进行的感染传播可能对HIV-1感染的药物治疗发展具有重要意义。