title: Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 entry into murine cell lines and lymphocytes from transgenic mice expressing a glycoprotein 120-binding mutant mouse CD4.
abstract: Human CD4, the receptor for the gp120 envelope glycoprotein of HIV-1, is the route for viral entry into CD4+ cells; other cellular factors may cooperate with CD4 to facilitate HIV-1 entry into human cells. Human CD4 expressed on murine cells does not readily mediate HIV-1 entry, which may reflect a functional incompatibility of human CD4 with murine cellular components. We postulated that a HIV-1 gp120-binding mutant murine CD4 (L3T4) possessing a minimal number of human amino acid residues could facilitate HIV-1 entry into rodent cells, unlike human CD4. This hypothesis led us to develop a series of murine L3T4 mutants that bear human CD4 gp120-binding region amino acid residues while retaining most L3T4 epitopes. HeLa cell transfectants expressing gp120-binding mutant L3T4 proteins could be infected with HIV-1. Three mouse cell lines expressing these L3T4 mutant proteins could also be infected with HIV-1 as determined by PCR techniques that detect viral DNA and spliced RNAs. Lectin-stimulated polymorphonuclear leukocytes from transgenic mice (SBL mouse) expressing a gp120-binding L3T4 mutant protein were infected with HIV-1 at the same frequency as lectin-stimulated human peripheral blood lymphocytes as determined by in situ PCR analyses. Supernatant p24gag and reverse transcriptase levels in HIV-infected mouse cell cultures, however, were routinely at background levels, unlike HIV-infected human cell cultures. Thus, gp120-binding mutant L3T4 proteins mediate viral entry in all mouse cells that were tested, but high-level viral replication is absent in these cells.
authors.affiliation: Division of Immunology, Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Wieder
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chatis
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Boltax
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Wieder
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nuovo
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Strom
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D015704:CD4 Antigens / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002460:Cell Line; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D015699:HIV Envelope Protein gp120 / Q000378:metabolism*; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D009154:Mutation; D014162:Transfection; D014779:Virus Replication
chemical_list: D015704:CD4 Antigens; D015699:HIV Envelope Protein gp120