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Nonpathogenesis of simian immunodeficiency virus infection is associated with reduced inflammation and recruitment of plasmacytoid dendritic cells to lymph nodes, not to lack of an interferon type I response, during the acute phase.
INSERM U841, Faculté Créteil Henri Mondor, 8 Rue du Général Sarrail, 94010 Créteil, France.
Journal of Virology (impact factor:
5.4).
11/2009;
84(4):1838-46.
DOI:10.1128/JVI.01496-09
pp.1838-46
Source: PubMed
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Article: Divergent TLR7 and TLR9 signaling and type I interferon production distinguish pathogenic and nonpathogenic AIDS virus infections.
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ABSTRACT: Pathogenic HIV infections of humans and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infections of rhesus macaques are characterized by generalized immune activation and progressive CD4(+) T cell depletion. In contrast, natural reservoir hosts for SIV, such as sooty mangabeys, do not progress to AIDS and show a lack of aberrant immune activation and preserved CD4(+) T cell populations, despite high levels of SIV replication. Here we show that sooty mangabeys have substantially reduced levels of innate immune system activation in vivo during acute and chronic SIV infection and that sooty mangabey plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) produce markedly less interferon-alpha in response to SIV and other Toll-like receptor 7 and 9 ligands ex vivo. We propose that chronic stimulation of pDCs by SIV and HIV in non-natural hosts may drive the unrelenting immune system activation and dysfunction underlying AIDS progression. Such a vicious cycle of continuous virus replication and immunopathology is absent in natural sooty mangabey hosts.Nature medicine 10/2008; 14(10):1077-87. · 27.14 Impact Factor
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Keywords
distinguish pathogenic
Divergent Toll-like receptor 7
nonpathogenic African green monkeys
nonpathogenic simian immunodeficiency virus infection
pathogenic rhesus macaques
plasmacytoid dendritic cells
primate models
TLR7/9 response
TLR9 signaling
