title: Preferential attachment of HIV particles to activated and CD45RO+CD4+ T cells.
abstract: We have studied the binding of biotinylated HIV particles to various cell lines and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Viruses were harvested from cultures of cell surface-biotinylated cells productively infected with HIV-IIIB. Labeled HIV particles bound to and infected CD4(+) cell lines and PBMCs. The interaction between gp120 and CD4 contributed in part to HIV binding to CD4(+) cells. However, HIV binding was for the most part independent of CD4 expression and sensitive to polyanion inhibition. Polyanion-sensitive interactions involved heparan sulfate in cell lines but not in primary T cells. Interestingly, HIV binding to primary cells was heterogeneous and targeted discrete subsets of CD4(+) and CD4(-) cells. The CD4(+) T cell subset that displayed high HIV-binding capacity contained mostly CD4(+)CD45RO(+) cells, whereas the subset showing undetectable HIV binding contained higher proportions of CD4(+)CD45RO(-) cells. Consistently, purified CD4(+)CD45RO(-) cells or purified CD4(+) T cells with low virus-binding capacity showed lower HIV entry and delayed HIV replication when compared with purified CD4(+)CD45RO(+) or purified CD4(+) T cells with high virus-binding capacity, respectively. Our data suggest that the binding of HIV to cell surface-expressed CD4 might be inefficient in a subset of CD4(+) T cells and that increased binding of HIV to activated and CD4(+)CD45RO(+) cells may contribute to the higher susceptibility of these cells to HIV infection.
authors.affiliation: Laboratori de Retrovirologia, Fundació irsiCaixa, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona 08916, Catalonia, Spain. jblanco@ns.hugtip.scs.es
authors.forename: Julià
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blanco
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barretina
authors.forename: Arantxa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez
authors.forename: Mercedes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Armand-Ugón
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cabrera
authors.forename: Bonaventura
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Clotet
authors.forename: José A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Esté
mesh_terms: D001710:Biotin; D015496:CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology / Q000821:virology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000276:immunology / Q000502:physiology*; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D017493:Leukocyte Common Antigens / Q000276:immunology; D007963:Leukocytes, Mononuclear / Q000821:virology; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D011991:Receptors, Virus / Q000276:immunology; D014779:Virus Replication
chemical_list: D011991:Receptors, Virus; D001710:Biotin; D017493:Leukocyte Common Antigens