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  • Title: Difference in susceptibility to CC-chemokines among HIV-1 isolates.
    Author: Gao M, Tsuchie H, Jin TQ, Zhang J, Detorio MA, Hossain MM, Taniguchi K, Kurimura T.
    Journal: Int J STD AIDS; 1998 Aug; 9(8):471-5. PubMed ID: 9702596.
    Abstract:
    In this study, we examined the difference in susceptibility to anti-HIV activity of the CC-chemokines (RANTES, MIP-1 alpha and MIP-1 beta) among HIV-1 isolates and analysed its relation with phenotype (syncytium inducibility) and V3 domain of gp120 of the HIV-1 isolates. Of 11 cases tested in endogenous assay, at a concentration of 200 ng/ml, RANTES, MIP-1 alpha, and MIP-1 beta showed more than 80% suppression of HIV-1 replication in 10, 8, and 7 cases, respectively. HIV-1 isolates sensitive to more than one CC-chemokine showed non-syncytium-inducing phenotype, whereas HIV-1 isolates resistant to all of the 3 CC-chemokines showed syncytium-inducing phenotype. HIV-1 isolates resistant to all of the 3 CC-chemokines contained more positively charged amino acid residues in the V3 domain of the gp120. These results indicated that utilization of the CC-chemokine receptors as co-receptors for virus entry could vary among HIV-1 isolates.
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