In Vitro Infection of Human Umbilical Cord Blood CD34+ Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells by HIV-1 CRF07_BC Enveloped Pseudovirus

Title:In Vitro Infection of Human Umbilical Cord Blood CD34+ Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells by HIV-1 CRF07_BC Enveloped Pseudovirus

Volume: 10 Issue: 7

Author(s): Lin Li, Chao Qiu, Liangzhu Li, Aiping Liu, Mingzhe Zhou, Zhimin Han, Chenli Qiu, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jianqing Xu and Huanzhang Zhu

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Keywords: HIV-1, latency, hematopoietic progenitor cells, CRF07_BC, integration

Abstract: To determine whether CRF07_BC, one of the most predominant strains that accounts for one third HIV-1 prevalence in China, has the ability to infect hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs), human Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB) derived CD34+ HPCs isolated with high purity were infected by HIV-1 pseudotyped with CRF07_BC envelope. After HIV-1 infection, ~0.86% CD34+ HPCs were co-stained for CD34 and intracellular HIV Gag. HIV p24 antigen was detectable and reached maximal release between day 2-4 after HIV-1 infection. The data of nested Alu-LTR PCR proved the integration of HIV-1 genome into the host genome occurred in HIV-1-infected HPCs. These data demonstrated that the envelope of CRF07_BC from China has the capability of resulting in infection to CD34+ HPCs, which may serve as a mechanism for long-term latency of HIV-1 infection in vivo.

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Li Lin, Qiu Chao, Li Liangzhu, Liu Aiping, Zhou Mingzhe, Han Zhimin, Qiu Chenli, Zhang Xiaoyan, Xu Jianqing and Zhu Huanzhang, In Vitro Infection of Human Umbilical Cord Blood CD34+ Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells by HIV-1 CRF07_BC Enveloped Pseudovirus, Current HIV Research 2012; 10 (7) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157016212803305989