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Macrophage tropism of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and utilization of the CC-CKR5 coreceptor

J Virol. 1997 Feb;71(2):1657-61. doi: 10.1128/JVI.71.2.1657-1661.1997.

Abstract

The recent identification of the CC-CKR5 beta chemokine receptor as a major cofactor for entry of macrophage-tropic isolates of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) raises the question of whether macrophage tropism is determined by utilization of this chemokine receptor. We observe that in addition to macrophage-tropic isolates of clades A, B, and E, macrophage-tropic isolates of clade F also utilize the CC-CKR5 molecule for entry. However, using single-round replication-competent reporter viruses carrying the envelope genes of T-cell line-tropic or macrophage-tropic phenotypic recombinant and mutant HIV-1 strains in infection of stable cell lines that coexpress the CD4 and chemokine receptors, we were unable to establish a strict correlation between macrophage tropism and utilization of the CC-CKR5 chemokine receptor. This latter finding suggests that a cofactor other than CC-CKR5 serves to determine entry into primary macrophages.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • HIV Infections / virology*
  • HIV-1 / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Macrophages / virology*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Receptors, CCR5
  • Receptors, Cytokine*
  • Receptors, HIV*
  • Virus Replication*

Substances

  • Receptors, CCR5
  • Receptors, Cytokine
  • Receptors, HIV