TY - JOUR
T1 - Infection of primary human microglia and monocyte-derived macrophages with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 isolates
T2 - Evidence of differential tropism
AU - Strizki, Julie M.
AU - Albright, Andrew V.
AU - Sheng, Hai
AU - O'Connor, Michael
AU - Perrin, Luc
AU - González-Scarano, Francisco
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PY - 1996/11
Y1 - 1996/11
N2 - To ascertain whether viruses present at the time of primary viremia can infect the central nervous system and to determine if microglial tropism is distinct from tropism for monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM), 27 human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) isolates obtained from acutely infected individuals, as well as laboratory strains, were assayed far their ability to replicate in primary adult microglial cultures and in MDM. Most of the isolates replicated equally well in both microglia and MDM, but several isolates replicated preferentially in one of the two cell types, differing by as much as 40-fold in p24(gag) production. This indicated that while MDM and microglial tropism overlap, a subset of isolates is particularly tropic for one of the two cell types. One isolate was further adapted to microglia by 15 sequential passages, raising the peak p24 concentration produced by 1,000- fold. In addition, the passaged virus induced marked cytopathologic changes (vacuolization and syncytium formation) in infected microglial cultures. Sequence comparison of the V3 loop of unpassaged and multiply passaged virus revealed amino acid changes shown to be associated with isolates from patients with HIV dementia. Our data support the hypothesis that HIV-1 infection can be established in the central nervous system by viruses present early in HIV infection, that some of these viruses are particularly tropic for microglia, and that adaptation in this cell type can result in the selection of a pool of predominantly microglia-tropic (neurotropic) viruses.
AB - To ascertain whether viruses present at the time of primary viremia can infect the central nervous system and to determine if microglial tropism is distinct from tropism for monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM), 27 human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) isolates obtained from acutely infected individuals, as well as laboratory strains, were assayed far their ability to replicate in primary adult microglial cultures and in MDM. Most of the isolates replicated equally well in both microglia and MDM, but several isolates replicated preferentially in one of the two cell types, differing by as much as 40-fold in p24(gag) production. This indicated that while MDM and microglial tropism overlap, a subset of isolates is particularly tropic for one of the two cell types. One isolate was further adapted to microglia by 15 sequential passages, raising the peak p24 concentration produced by 1,000- fold. In addition, the passaged virus induced marked cytopathologic changes (vacuolization and syncytium formation) in infected microglial cultures. Sequence comparison of the V3 loop of unpassaged and multiply passaged virus revealed amino acid changes shown to be associated with isolates from patients with HIV dementia. Our data support the hypothesis that HIV-1 infection can be established in the central nervous system by viruses present early in HIV infection, that some of these viruses are particularly tropic for microglia, and that adaptation in this cell type can result in the selection of a pool of predominantly microglia-tropic (neurotropic) viruses.
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U2 - 10.1128/jvi.70.11.7654-7662.1996
DO - 10.1128/jvi.70.11.7654-7662.1996
M3 - Article
C2 - 8892885
AN - SCOPUS:0029845797
VL - 70
SP - 7654
EP - 7662
JO - Journal of Virology
JF - Journal of Virology
SN - 0022-538X
IS - 11
ER -