PMID- 11312337 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20010524 LR - 20181113 IS - 0022-538X (Print) IS - 1098-5514 (Electronic) IS - 0022-538X (Linking) VI - 75 IP - 10 DP - 2001 May TI - DC-SIGN interactions with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and 2 and simian immunodeficiency virus. PG - 4664-72 AB - Dendritic cells (DCs) efficiently bind and transmit human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to cocultured T cells and so may play an important role in HIV transmission. DC-SIGN, a novel C-type lectin that is expressed in DCs, has recently been shown to bind R5 HIV type 1 (HIV-1) strains and a laboratory-adapted X4 strain. To characterize the interaction of DC-SIGN with primate lentiviruses, we investigated the structural determinants of DC-SIGN required for virus binding and transmission to permissive cells. We constructed a panel of DC-SIGN mutants and established conditions which allowed comparable cell surface expression of all mutants. We found that R5, X4, and R5X4 HIV-1 isolates as well as simian immunodeficiency and HIV-2 strains bound to DC-SIGN and could be transmitted to CD4/coreceptor-positive cell types. DC-SIGN contains a single N-linked carbohydrate chain that is important for efficient cell surface expression but is not required for DC-SIGN-mediated virus binding and transmission. In contrast, C-terminal deletions removing either the lectin binding domain or the repeat region abrogated DC-SIGN function. Trypsin-EDTA treatment inhibited DC-SIGN mediated infection, indicating that virus was maintained at the surface of the DC-SIGN-expressing cells used in this study. Finally, quantitative fluorescence-activated cell sorting analysis of AU1-tagged DC-SIGN revealed that the efficiency of virus transmission was strongly affected by variations in DC-SIGN expression levels. Thus, variations in DC-SIGN expression levels on DCs could greatly affect the susceptibility of human individuals to HIV infection. FAU - Pohlmann, S AU - Pohlmann S AD - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. FAU - Baribaud, F AU - Baribaud F FAU - Lee, B AU - Lee B FAU - Leslie, G J AU - Leslie GJ FAU - Sanchez, M D AU - Sanchez MD FAU - Hiebenthal-Millow, K AU - Hiebenthal-Millow K FAU - Munch, J AU - Munch J FAU - Kirchhoff, F AU - Kirchhoff F FAU - Doms, R W AU - Doms RW LA - eng GR - P30 AI045008/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - 40880/PHS HHS/United States GR - AI 35383/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - P30-AI45008/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - J Virol JT - Journal of virology JID - 0113724 RN - 0 (Cell Adhesion Molecules) RN - 0 (DC-specific ICAM-3 grabbing nonintegrin) RN - 0 (Lectins) RN - 0 (Lectins, C-Type) RN - 0 (Receptors, Cell Surface) RN - 0 (Receptors, Virus) RN - 9G34HU7RV0 (Edetic Acid) RN - EC 3.4.21.4 (Trypsin) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Animals MH - *Cell Adhesion Molecules MH - Cell Line, Transformed MH - Cell Membrane/metabolism MH - Edetic Acid MH - Gene Expression MH - Glycosylation MH - HIV-1/*metabolism MH - HIV-2/*metabolism MH - Humans MH - Lectins/genetics/*metabolism MH - *Lectins, C-Type MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Mutagenesis MH - Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics/*metabolism MH - Receptors, Virus/genetics/*metabolism MH - Simian Immunodeficiency Virus/*metabolism MH - Trypsin PMC - PMC114220 EDAT- 2001/04/20 10:00 MHDA- 2001/05/26 10:01 PMCR- 2001/05/01 CRDT- 2001/04/20 10:00 PHST- 2001/04/20 10:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2001/05/26 10:01 [medline] PHST- 2001/04/20 10:00 [entrez] PHST- 2001/05/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 2280 [pii] AID - 10.1128/JVI.75.10.4664-4672.2001 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Virol. 2001 May;75(10):4664-72. doi: 10.1128/JVI.75.10.4664-4672.2001.