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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
卷 76, 期 10, 页码 5094-5107出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.10.5094-5107.2002
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A critical aspect of AIDS pathogenesis that remains unclear is the mechanism by which human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) induces death in CD4(+) T lymphocytes. A better understanding of the death process occurring in infected cells may pro-tide valuable insight into the viral component responsible for cytopathicity. This would aid the design of preventive treatments against the rapid decline of CD4(+) T cells that results in AIDS. Previously, apoptotic cell death has been reported in HIV-1 infections in cultured T cells, and it has been suggested that this could affect both infected and uninfected cells. To evaluate the mechanism of this effect, we have studied HIV-1-induced cell death extensively by infecting several T-cell lines and assessing the level of apoptosis by using various biochemical and flow cytometric assays. Contrary to the prevailing view that apoptosis plays a prominent role in HIV-1-mediated T-cell death, we found that Jurkat and H9 cells dying from HIV-1 infection fail to exhibit the collective hallmarks of apoptosis. Among the parameters investigated,. in V display, caspase activity and cleavage of caspase substrates, TUNEL (terminal deoxynucleotidyl-Annexin transferase-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end labeling) signal, and APO2.7 display were detected at low to negligible levels. Neither peptide caspase inhibitors nor the antiapoptotic proteins Bel-x, or v-FLIP could prevent cell death in HIV-1-infected cultures. Furthermore, Jurkat cell lines deficient in RIP, caspase-8, or FADD were as susceptible as wild-type Jurkat cells to HIV-1 cytopathicity. These results suggest that the primary mode of cytopathicity by laboratory-adapted molecular clones of HIV-1 in cultured cell lines is not via apoptosis. Rather, cell death occurs most likely via a necrotic or lytic form of death independent of caspase activation in directly infected cells.
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