Biological Characterization of HIV-1 Isolates from Long-term non-progressors (LTNP) and Rapid Progressors (RP) in Korea.
- Author:
Jeong Gu NAM
;
Chun KANG
;
Sung Rae LEE
;
Joo Shil LEE
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Cell Line;
Disease Progression;
Giant Cells;
HIV-1*;
Humans;
Kinetics;
Korea*;
Phenotype
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Virology
1998;28(4):347-358
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
To analyze the correlation between biological phenotypes of HIV-1 isolates and disease progression, we selected 9 long-term non-progressors (LTNP) and 12 rapid progressors (RP) from HIV-1 infected Korean. We isolated HIV-1 isolates by culture of PBMC of LTNP and RP with normal PBMC and measured HIV-1 p24 antigen production. The HIV-1 isolation rate from LTNP was 55.6% (5/9). And 4 HIV-1 LTNP isolates were non-syncytium inducing (NSI) phenotype and showed slow/low replication. The HIV-1 isolation rate from RP was 91.7% (l1/12) which was higher than that from LTNP. Besides 3 RP HIV-1 isolates which showed syncytium inducing (SI) phenotype, 8 RP HIV-1 isolates showed NSI phenotype in normal PBMC and MT-2 cell line. All RP HIV-1 isolates replicated more rapidly than LTNP HIV-1 isolates. Comparing the replication kinetics and syncytium forming capacity of HIV-1 isolates from LTNP and RP, we suggest that the difference of biological phenotype of HIV-1 isolates could be related with disease progression of HIV-1 infected persons.
