HIV DNA integration during cell-to-cell transmission of infection: evidence for partially integrated DNA structures in acutely infected cells
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2001
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Kok, T.
Li, P.
Burrell, C.
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Archives of Virology, 2001; 146(10):1963-1978
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T. Kok, P. Li, C. J. Burrell
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Summary. A one-step cell-to-cell transmission model of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection was used to study viral DNA integration in the early phase of viral replication. Co-culturing H3B cells as virus donors with CD4+ Hut78 recipient cells in a ratio of 1:4 produced a synchronous, one-step viral infection with de novo synthesis of unintegrated HIV DNA within 4 h p.i., which subsequently integrates in the host genomic DNA to form provirus. To study the kinetics of viral DNA integration, cellular chromosomal DNA was isolated at different times after co-culturing and extensive electrophoresis was used to remove residual unintegrated viral DNA. Removal of contaminating, unintegrated viral DNA in the purified chromosomal DNA fraction was confirmed by various experiments. When purified chromosomal DNA (free of contaminating unintegrated viral DNA) - from the mix of acutely infected cells - was digested with restriction enzymes KpnI, BamHI or PstI and analysed by Southern blot hybridization, integration of viral DNA into chromosomal DNA was first observed at 8 h p.i. and was essentially complete by 72 h p.i. In addition, evidence was found for a relatively stable, partially integrated HIV DNA structure within the chromosomal DNA, that was first detectable at 8 h p.i. and did not become fully integrated until 72 hours post infection.
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