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  • Title: Preferential feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) infection of CD4+ CD25+ T-regulatory cells correlates both with surface expression of CXCR4 and activation of FIV long terminal repeat binding cellular transcriptional factors.
    Author: Joshi A, Garg H, Tompkins MB, Tompkins WA.
    Journal: J Virol; 2005 Apr; 79(8):4965-76. PubMed ID: 15795282.
    Abstract:
    Previously, we have characterized feline CD4+ CD25+ T-regulatory (Treg) cells with regard to their immune regulatory properties and ability to support feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) replication in vitro and in vivo. Our studies showed that while CD4+ CD25+ cells were capable of replicating FIV in the presence of interleukin-2 (IL-2) alone, CD4+ CD25- cells harbored a latent infection that required a strong mitogenic stimulus to activate virus replication. In the present study, we investigated the mechanisms governing the preferential replication of FIV in highly purified CD4+ CD25+ Treg cells compared to their CD4+ CD25+ counterparts. Studies aimed at elucidating mechanisms regulating infection of these cells revealed that CD4+ CD25- cells were less susceptible to FIV binding and entry than CD4+ CD25+ cells, which correlated with increased surface expression of FIV coreceptor CXCR4. In addition, the number of CD4+ CD25+ cells that expressed the primary receptor CD134 was greater than for CD4+ CD25- cells. Although increased permissiveness to FIV infection of CD4+ CD25- cells following mitogenic stimulation correlated strongly with upregulation of surface CXCR4, it did not correlate with CD134 expression. Further, study of intracellular factors regulating FIV replication revealed that CD4+ CD25+ but not CD4+ CD25- T cells showed constitutive and IL-2-responsive transactivation of activating transcription factor, CAAT enhancer binding protein, and activating protein 1 transcription factors that are important for FIV replication. These factors were upregulated in CD4+ CD25- T cells following ConA stimulation, which correlated with FIV replication. This is the first report elucidating the mechanisms that allow for productive lentiviral infection of CD4+ CD25+ Treg cells.
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