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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 81, Issue 14, Pages 7388-7399Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00893-06
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI50463, R56 AI050463, R01 AI050463] Funding Source: Medline
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Human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) viral protein R (Vpr) plays a crucial role in viral replication and pathogenesis by inducing cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, translocation of preintegration complex, potentiation of glucocorticoid action, impairment of dendritic cell (DC) maturation, and T-cell activation. Recent studies involving the direct effects of Vpr on DCs and T cells indicated that HIV-1 containing Vpr selectively impairs phenotypic maturation, cytokine network, and antigen presentation in DCs and dysregulates costimulatory molecules and cytokine production in T cells. Here, we have further investigated the indirect effect of HIV-1 Vpr(+) virus-infected DCs on the bystander CD8(+) T-cell population. Our results indicate that HIV-1 Vpr(+) virus-infected DCs dysregulate CD8(+) T-cell proliferation and induce apoptosis. Vpr-containing virus-infected DC-mediated CD8(+) T-cell killing occurred in part through enhanced tumor necrosis factor alpha production by infected DCs and subsequent induction of death receptor signaling and activation of the caspase 8-dependent pathway in CD8(+) T cells. Collectively, these results provide evidence that Vpr could be one of the important contributors to the host immune escape by HIV-1 through its ability to dysregulate both directly and indirectly the DC biology and T-cell functions.
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