title: Detection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 after infection of unstimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
abstract: Application of a highly sensitive PCR-based reverse transcriptase (RT) assay to the analysis of the infection of CD4+ cell lines with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) demonstrated that virus production can be detected as early as 24 h after infection. Most of the signal at 24 h was due to virus production, as it could be substantially reduced by prior treatment with the RT inhibitor zidovudine. Virus production at 24 and 48 h was unaffected by the protease inhibitor indinavir. Infection of unstimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) with a macrophage-tropic HIV-1 isolate yielded increasing virus production for 2-3 weeks, while infection with a T-cell line-tropic isolate yielded only low and sporadic virus production. Productive infection of unstimulated PBMC by the macrophage-tropic virus required functional Gag matrix and Vpr proteins; therefore, the monocyte-derived macrophage is probably the virus-producing cell in these cultures.
authors.forename: S Z
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Maudru
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Peden
mesh_terms: D015496:CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000821:virology; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D007963:Leukocytes, Mononuclear / Q000821:virology*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction