RESEARCH ARTICLE


CD4 T Cells Treated with gp120 Acquire a CD45R0+/CD45RA+ Phenotype



Sergey A Trushin1, 2, Gary D Bren1, Andrew D Badley*, 1, 2
1 Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
2 Program in Translational Immunovirology and Biodefense, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA

Article Information


Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2009
Volume: 3
First Page: 21
Last Page: 25
Publisher Id: TOVJ-3-21
DOI: 10.2174/1874357900903010021

Article History:

Received Date: 26/2/2009
Revision Received Date: 6/3/2009
Acceptance Date: 12/3/2009
Electronic publication date: 1/4/2009
Collection year: 2009

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* Address correspondence to this author at the Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; Tel: 507-266-5065; Fax: 507-284-3757; E-mail: badley.andrew@mayo.edu


Abstract

HIV-infected patients exhibit quantitative and qualitative defects in CD4 T cells, including having increased numbers of CD4+CD45R0+/CD45RA+ T cells, although it remains unclear how these cells arise. Here we demonstrate that gp120 treatment of activated but not resting primary human CD4 T cells decreases number of cells with single positive CD45R0+/CD45RA- effector memory phenotype while proportionally increasing the subset of cells with double positive CD45R0+/CD45RA+ mixed phenotype. We found that double positive CD45R0+/CD45RA+CD4 T cells preferentially undergo apoptosis while single positive CD45R0+/CD45RA- and CD45R0-/CD45RA+ do not. Blocking gp120-CD4 interaction with sCD4 or inhibition Lck activity reverses gp120 induced increase in double positive CD45R0+/CD45RA+CD4 T cells and subsequently diminishes the apoptosis of double positive CD45R0+/CD45RA+ cells. Altogether these data indicate that gp120 ligation of the CD4 receptor increases the number of double positive CD45R0+/CD45RA+ CD4 T cells which subsequently undergo apoptosis in a CD4 dependent manner.