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Assessing the Innate Sensing of HIV-1 Infected CD4+ T Cells by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Using an Ex vivo Co-culture System.
Published on: September 1, 2015
Cytokines regulate expression and function of the HIV coreceptor CXCR4 on human mature dendritic cells
J P Zoeteweij1, H Golding, H Mostowski
1Dermatology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Abstract:
HIV-infected dendritic cells (DC) efficiently transmit infection to CD4+ T cells during the process of T cell activation. To further understand interactions between DC and HIV, cytokine regulation of HIV coreceptors on cultured Langerhans cells (cLC, as prototypes of mature DC) was studied. Expression of cell surface CXCR4 on cLC was up-regulated by IL-4 and TGF-beta1 and inhibited by IFN-alpha, IFN-beta, and IFN-gamma, whereas cytokines did not appreciably regulate CCR5. Changes in cell surface CXCR4 expression on cLC correlated with T cell-tropic (X4)-HIV envelope-mediated syncytium formation and X4-HIV infection levels. A relative increase in the ratio of type 2/type 1 cytokine production, which can occur in HIV disease, may up-regulate CXCR4 expression on mature DC and promote infection by X4 viruses. Importantly, these findings suggest that cytokine dysregulation may be linked to the emergence of X4-HIV strains as HIV-infected individuals progress to AIDS.
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