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Fusion of monocytes and macrophages with HIV-1 correlates with biochemical properties of CXCR4 and CCR5.

Human macrophages can be infected more efficiently by M-tropic than by T-tropic HIV-1 strains, despite surface expression of both CXCR4 and CCR5 co-receptors. Western blot analyses of total cell extracts and surface proteins from multiple sets of monocytes and macrophages demonstrated substantial differences between CXCR4 molecules. CXCR4 was mainly a monomer in monocytes, but was mainly a species of higher molecular weight (90 kDa) on the surface of macrophages. CCR5 was monomeric in both cell types. A constitutive association between CD4 and the co-receptors was seen in monocytes and macrophages. However, CD4 co-precipitated with CCR5 and CXCR4 monomers, but not with the high-molecular-weight forms of CXCR4, indicating that the high-molecular-weight CXCR4 species in macrophages are not available for association with CD4, which may contribute to the inefficient entry of T-tropic strains into mature macrophages.[1]

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  1. Fusion of monocytes and macrophages with HIV-1 correlates with biochemical properties of CXCR4 and CCR5. Lapham, C.K., Zaitseva, M.B., Lee, S., Romanstseva, T., Golding, H. Nat. Med. (1999) [Pubmed]
 
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