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VIROLOGY
Volume 285, Issue 2, Pages 356-365Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1006/viro.2001.0969
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HIV; T cells; cell death; apoptosis; CD4; CD8; tropism
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We have evaluated the death of CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells during in vitro human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and tonsilar tissue. Acute infections with several X4 and R5 HIV isolates induced a decrease in cell viability that was higher in infections with X4 viruses and correlated with an increased rate of CD4 ' T-cell death. In CD4(+) T cells, the primary X4 isolate AOM induced higher levels of death than the laboratory X4 isolates IIIB and NL4-3 or the R5 isolates Bat and MDM. An effect on CD8(+) T-cell viability was exclusively observed in infections by X4 viruses, including the NL4-3 strain, in both PBMC and tonsilar tissue. This effect was dependent on the env gene of the infecting isolate and required productive HIV replication in CD4(+) but not in CD8(+) T cells. Our results suggest that X4 and R5 HIV isolates depleted CD4(+) T cells to a different extent and that CD8(+) T-cell viability may also be affected by mechanisms other than those acting in CD4(+) T cells. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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