Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States.
School of Nursing, UCLA AIDS Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States.
Elife. 2019 Oct 28;8:e46916. doi: 10.7554/eLife.46916.
Immune progenitor cells differentiate in bone marrow (BM) and then migrate to tissues. HIV-1 infects multiple BM cell types, but virus dissemination within BM has been poorly understood. We used light microscopy and electron tomography to elucidate mechanisms of HIV-1 dissemination within BM of HIV-1-infected BM/liver/thymus (BLT) mice. Tissue clearing combined with confocal and light sheet fluorescence microscopy revealed distinct populations of HIV-1 p24-producing cells in BM early after infection, and quantification of these populations identified macrophages as the principal subset of virus-producing cells in BM over time. Electron tomography demonstrated three modes of HIV-1 dissemination in BM: () semi-synchronous budding from T-cell and macrophage membranes, () mature virus association with virus-producing T-cell uropods contacting putative target cells, and () macrophages engulfing HIV-1-producing T-cells and producing virus within enclosed intracellular compartments that fused to invaginations with access to the extracellular space. These results illustrate mechanisms by which the specialized environment of the BM can promote virus spread locally and to distant lymphoid tissues.
免疫祖细胞在骨髓 (BM) 中分化,然后迁移到组织中。HIV-1 感染多种 BM 细胞类型,但对 BM 内病毒传播的理解甚少。我们使用光学显微镜和电子断层扫描技术来阐明 HIV-1 在感染 HIV-1 的 BM/肝/胸腺 (BLT) 小鼠 BM 内传播的机制。组织透明化结合共聚焦和光片荧光显微镜显示,在感染后早期,BM 中存在明显的 HIV-1 p24 产生细胞群体,随着时间的推移,对这些群体的定量分析确定巨噬细胞是 BM 中产生病毒细胞的主要亚群。电子断层扫描显示了 HIV-1 在 BM 中传播的三种模式:(i) T 细胞和巨噬细胞膜的半同步出芽,(ii) 成熟病毒与接触潜在靶细胞的产生病毒的 T 细胞足突相关,以及 (iii) 巨噬细胞吞噬产生病毒的 T 细胞,并在与细胞外空间相通的内陷中形成包含病毒的细胞内隔室。这些结果说明了 BM 的特殊环境如何促进病毒在局部和远处淋巴组织中的传播。