PMID- 31708924 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20201006 LR - 20201006 IS - 1664-3224 (Electronic) IS - 1664-3224 (Linking) VI - 10 DP - 2019 TI - Dendritic Cells, the Double Agent in the War Against HIV-1. PG - 2485 LID - 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02485 [doi] LID - 2485 AB - Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infects cells from the immune system and has thus developed tools to circumvent the host immunity and use it in its advance. Dendritic cells (DCs) are the first immune cells to encounter the HIV, and being the main antigen (Ag) presenting cells, they link the innate and the adaptive immune responses. While DCs work to promote an efficient immune response and halt the infection, HIV-1 has ways to take advantage of their role and uses DCs to gain faster and more efficient access to CD4(+) T cells. Due to their ability to activate a specific immune response, DCs are promising candidates to achieve the functional cure of HIV-1 infection, but knowing the molecular partakers that determine the relationship between virus and cell is the key for the rational and successful design of a DC-based therapy. In this review, we summarize the current state of knowledge on how both DC subsets (myeloid and plasmacytoid DCs) act in presence of HIV-1, and focus on different pathways that the virus can take after binding to DC. First, we explore the consequences of HIV-1 recognition by each receptor on DCs, including CD4 and DC-SIGN. Second, we look at cellular mechanisms that prevent productive infection and weapons that turn cellular defense into a Trojan horse that hides the virus all the way to T cell. Finally, we discuss the possible outcomes of DC-T cell contact. CI - Copyright (c) 2019 Martin-Moreno and Munoz-Fernandez. FAU - Martin-Moreno, Alba AU - Martin-Moreno A AD - Seccion de Inmunologia, Laboratorio InmunoBiologia Molecular, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon (HGUGM), Madrid, Spain. AD - Instituto Investigacion Sanitaria Gregorio Maranon (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain. FAU - Munoz-Fernandez, M feminine Angeles AU - Munoz-Fernandez MA AD - Seccion de Inmunologia, Laboratorio InmunoBiologia Molecular, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon (HGUGM), Madrid, Spain. AD - Instituto Investigacion Sanitaria Gregorio Maranon (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain. AD - Spanish HIV-HGM BioBank, Madrid, Spain. AD - Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER BBN), Madrid, Spain. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20191023 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Immunol JT - Frontiers in immunology JID - 101560960 SB - IM MH - CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/virology MH - Dendritic Cells/*immunology/virology MH - HIV Infections/*immunology/therapy/virology MH - HIV-1/*immunology MH - Humans MH - Immunotherapy PMC - PMC6820366 OTO - NOTNLM OT - HIV-1 OT - cis-infection OT - dendritic cells OT - endocytosis OT - immune response OT - trans-infection EDAT- 2019/11/12 06:00 MHDA- 2020/10/07 06:00 PMCR- 2019/01/01 CRDT- 2019/11/12 06:00 PHST- 2019/07/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/10/04 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/11/12 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/11/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/10/07 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02485 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Immunol. 2019 Oct 23;10:2485. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02485. eCollection 2019.