HIV dementia patients exhibit reduced viral neutralization and increased envelope sequence diversity in blood and brain
作者:
Guido van Marle,
Sean Rourke,
Kunyan Zhang,
Claudia Silva,
Julie Ethier,
M Gill,
Christopher Power,
期刊:
AIDS
(OVID Available online 2002)
卷期:
Volume 16,
issue 14
页码: 1905-1914
ISSN:0269-9370
年代: 2002
出版商: OVID
关键词: HIV sequence variability;envelope proteins;neutralization;neurological/brain;HIV-associated dementia;chemokine receptor
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Objectives:To examine the relationship between the humoral immune response and viral envelope diversity among HIV/AIDS patients with or without HIV-associated dementia (HAD).Methods:Whole blood and sera were collected from age- and disease-progression matched AIDS-defined patients with and without neuro-cognitive impairment at two centers. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were isolated from whole blood and separated into monocyte/macrophage and peripheral blood lymphocyte (PBL) preparations. Genomic DNA, isolated from the PBL population, was used as template to amplify HIV-1 C2V3 envelope sequences in a nested PCR protocol. The resulting fragments were sequenced and subjected to a phylogenetic analysis.Results:Sera from non-demented (ND; n = 21) patients neutralized infection of CCR5-dependent, but not CXCR4-dependent viruses, more efficiently than sera from HAD patients (n = 15) (P< 0.05). A recombinant virus containing a brain derived C2V3 sequence was also neutralized less efficiently by sera from HAD patients (P< 0.05). C2V3 envelope sequences amplified from PBL revealed significantly greater diversity within the V3 region from HAD compared with ND patients (P< 0.001). The number of non-synonymous substitutions was positively correlated with the severity of neuro-cognitive impairment of patients (P< 0.005). Similarly, brain derived V3 sequences exhibited significantly increased diversity among HAD patients (P< 0.001).Conclusion:Our findings imply that HAD patients exhibited impaired serological responses that may lead to the emergence of viral mutants that potentially could infect the brain and mediate neurodegeneration.
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