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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-4-20
pubmed:abstractText
Dendritic cells (DCs) efficiently bind and transmit human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to cocultured T cells and so may play an important role in HIV transmission. DC-SIGN, a novel C-type lectin that is expressed in DCs, has recently been shown to bind R5 HIV type 1 (HIV-1) strains and a laboratory-adapted X4 strain. To characterize the interaction of DC-SIGN with primate lentiviruses, we investigated the structural determinants of DC-SIGN required for virus binding and transmission to permissive cells. We constructed a panel of DC-SIGN mutants and established conditions which allowed comparable cell surface expression of all mutants. We found that R5, X4, and R5X4 HIV-1 isolates as well as simian immunodeficiency and HIV-2 strains bound to DC-SIGN and could be transmitted to CD4/coreceptor-positive cell types. DC-SIGN contains a single N-linked carbohydrate chain that is important for efficient cell surface expression but is not required for DC-SIGN-mediated virus binding and transmission. In contrast, C-terminal deletions removing either the lectin binding domain or the repeat region abrogated DC-SIGN function. Trypsin-EDTA treatment inhibited DC-SIGN mediated infection, indicating that virus was maintained at the surface of the DC-SIGN-expressing cells used in this study. Finally, quantitative fluorescence-activated cell sorting analysis of AU1-tagged DC-SIGN revealed that the efficiency of virus transmission was strongly affected by variations in DC-SIGN expression levels. Thus, variations in DC-SIGN expression levels on DCs could greatly affect the susceptibility of human individuals to HIV infection.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0022-538X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
75
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
4664-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Cell Adhesion Molecules, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Cell Line, Transformed, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Cell Membrane, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Edetic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Glycosylation, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-HIV-1, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-HIV-2, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Lectins, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Lectins, C-Type, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Mutagenesis, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Receptors, Cell Surface, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Receptors, Virus, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Simian immunodeficiency virus, pubmed-meshheading:11312337-Trypsin
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
DC-SIGN interactions with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and 2 and simian immunodeficiency virus.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't