TPSg, an anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) agent, isolated from the Cupressaceae Thuja occidentale L. (Arborvitae) enhances in vivo hemopoietic progenitor cells recovery in sublethally irradiated mice

1996 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 119-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.T. Hassan ◽  
N.J. Drize ◽  
E.Yu. Sadovinkova ◽  
O.I. Gan ◽  
S. Gohla ◽  
...  
Blood ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-55
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Campbell ◽  
Anne Sevin ◽  
Robert W. Coombs ◽  
Gregory C. Peterson ◽  
Mary Rosandich ◽  
...  

Genetic modification of hemopoietic progenitor cells ex vivo, followed by the infusion of the genetically modified cells into the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infected donor, has been proposed as a treatment for HIV-1 infection. The current study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of hemopoietic stem cell mobilization and harvesting on HIV-1 replication in persons with HIV-1 infection. Eighteen HIV-1–infected persons received recombinant granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF; Filgrastim) 10 μg/kg per day, for 7 days. On days 4 and 5, peripheral blood mononuclear cells were harvested by leukapheresis. The CD4+ lymphocyte count at entry was >500/μL for 6 subjects, 200 to 500/μL for 6 subjects, and <200/μL for 6 subjects. For 9 of 18 subjects, plasma HIV-1 RNA levels increased 4- to 100-fold (>0.6 log10) above baseline between days 4 and 7 and returned to baseline by day 27. Significant increases of plasma HIV-1 RNA levels occurred in 5 subjects despite 3-drug antiretroviral therapy. Changes in CD4+ and CD34+ cells during mobilization and harvesting were similar in all subjects whether they had or did not have increased plasma HIV-1 RNA levels. Thus, mobilization and harvesting of bone marrow progenitor cells from persons infected with HIV-1 induced a transient increase in viral replication in some patients but was not associated with adverse effects. (Blood. 2000;95: 48-55)


Blood ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Campbell ◽  
Anne Sevin ◽  
Robert W. Coombs ◽  
Gregory C. Peterson ◽  
Mary Rosandich ◽  
...  

Abstract Genetic modification of hemopoietic progenitor cells ex vivo, followed by the infusion of the genetically modified cells into the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infected donor, has been proposed as a treatment for HIV-1 infection. The current study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of hemopoietic stem cell mobilization and harvesting on HIV-1 replication in persons with HIV-1 infection. Eighteen HIV-1–infected persons received recombinant granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF; Filgrastim) 10 μg/kg per day, for 7 days. On days 4 and 5, peripheral blood mononuclear cells were harvested by leukapheresis. The CD4+ lymphocyte count at entry was &gt;500/μL for 6 subjects, 200 to 500/μL for 6 subjects, and &lt;200/μL for 6 subjects. For 9 of 18 subjects, plasma HIV-1 RNA levels increased 4- to 100-fold (&gt;0.6 log10) above baseline between days 4 and 7 and returned to baseline by day 27. Significant increases of plasma HIV-1 RNA levels occurred in 5 subjects despite 3-drug antiretroviral therapy. Changes in CD4+ and CD34+ cells during mobilization and harvesting were similar in all subjects whether they had or did not have increased plasma HIV-1 RNA levels. Thus, mobilization and harvesting of bone marrow progenitor cells from persons infected with HIV-1 induced a transient increase in viral replication in some patients but was not associated with adverse effects. (Blood. 2000;95: 48-55)


1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 5121-5127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasad S. Koka ◽  
John K. Fraser ◽  
Yvonne Bryson ◽  
Gregory C. Bristol ◽  
Grace M. Aldrovandi ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected individuals often exhibit multiple hematopoietic abnormalities reaching far beyond loss of CD4+ lymphocytes. We used the SCID-hu (Thy/Liv) mouse (severe combined immunodeficient mouse transplanted with human fetal thymus and liver tissues), which provides an in vivo system whereby human pluripotent hematopoietic progenitor cells can be maintained and undergo T-lymphoid differentiation and wherein HIV-1 infection causes severe depletion of CD4-bearing human thymocytes. Herein we show that HIV-1 infection rapidly and severely decreases the ex vivo recovery of human progenitor cells capable of differentiation into both erythroid and myeloid lineages. However, the total CD34+ cell population is not depleted. Combination antiretroviral therapy administered well after loss of multilineage progenitor activity reverses this inhibitory effect, establishing a causal role of viral replication. Taken together, our results suggest that pluripotent stem cells are not killed by HIV-1; rather, a later stage important in both myeloid and erythroid differentiation is affected. In addition, a primary virus isolated from a patient exhibiting multiple hematopoietic abnormalities preferentially depleted myeloid and erythroid colony-forming activity rather than CD4-bearing thymocytes in this system. Thus, HIV-1 infection perturbs multiple hematopoietic lineages in vivo, which may explain the many hematopoietic defects found in infected patients.


Blood ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 91 (8) ◽  
pp. 2672-2678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Jenkins ◽  
Mary Beth Hanley ◽  
Mary Beth Moreno ◽  
Eric Wieder ◽  
Joseph M. McCune

It is still uncertain whether multilineage hematopoietic progenitor cells are affected by human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infection in vivo. The SCID-hu Thy/Liv model is permissive of long-term multilineage human hematopoiesis, including T lymphopoiesis. This model was used to investigate the effects of HIV-1 infection on early hematopoietic progenitor function. We found that both lineage-restricted and multilineage hematopoietic progenitors were depleted from grafts infected with either a molecular clone or a primary isolate of HIV-1. Depletion of hematopoietic progenitors (including CD34+ cells, colony-forming units in methylcellulose, and long-term culture-initiating cells) occurred several days before the onset of thymocyte depletion, indicating that the subsequent rapid decline in thymocyte numbers was due at least in part to loss of thymocyte progenitors. HIV-1 proviral genomes were not detected at high frequency in hematopoietic cells earlier than the intrathymic T-progenitor cell stage, despite the depletion of such cells in infected grafts. Proviral genomes were also not detected in colonies derived from progenitor cells from infected grafts. These data demonstrate that HIV-1 infection interrupts both lineage-restricted and multilineage hematopoiesis in vivo and suggest that depletion of early hematopoietic progenitor cells occurs in the absence of direct viral infection.


1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (11) ◽  
pp. 9089-9097 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasad S. Koka ◽  
Beth D. Jamieson ◽  
David G. Brooks ◽  
Jerome A. Zack

ABSTRACT Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals exhibit a variety of hematopoietic dysfunctions. The SCID-hu mouse (severe combined immunodeficient mouse transplanted with human fetal thymus and liver tissues) can be used to model the loss of human hematopoietic precursor cell function following HIV infection and has a distinct advantage in that data can be obtained in the absence of confounding factors often seen in infected humans. In this study, we establish that HIV type 1 (HIV-1) bearing a reporter gene inserted into the viralvpr gene is highly aggressive in depleting human myeloid and erythroid colony-forming precursor activity in vivo. Human CD34+ progenitor cells can be efficiently recovered from infected implants yet do not express the viral reporter gene, despite severe functional defects. Our results indicate that HIV-1 infection alone leads to hematopoietic inhibition in vivo; however, this effect is due to indirect mechanisms rather than to direct infection of CD34+ cells in vivo.


2004 ◽  
Vol 78 (20) ◽  
pp. 11385-11392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasad S. Koka ◽  
Christina M. R. Kitchen ◽  
Srinivasa T. Reddy

ABSTRACT The inhibition of multilineage hematopoiesis which occurs in the severe combined immunodeficiency mouse with transplanted human fetal thymus and liver tissues (SCID-hu Thy/Liv) due to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection is also accompanied by a severe loss of c-Mpl expression on these progenitor cells. Inhibition of colony-forming activity (CFA) of the CD34+ progenitor cells is partially revived to about 40% of mock-infected Thy/Liv implants, following reconstitution of the CD34+ cells that were exposed to HIV-1 infection, in a new Thy/Liv stromal microenvironment of irradiated secondary SCID-hu recipients at 3 weeks post-re-engraftment. In addition, in these reconstituted animals, the proportion of c-Mpl+ CD34+ cells relative to c-Mpl− CD34+ cells increased by about 25%, to 35% of mock-infected implants, suggesting a reacquirement of c-Mpl phenotype by the c-Mpl− CD34+ cells. These results suggest a correlation between c-Mpl expression and multilineage CFA of the human CD34+ progenitor cells that have experienced the effects of HIV-1 infection. Treatment of the secondary-recipient animals with the c-Mpl ligand, thrombopoietin (Tpo), further increased c-Mpl expression and CFA of re-engrafted CD34+ cells previously exposed to virus in the primary implants to about 50 to 70% over that of those re-engrafted CD34+ cells derived from implants of untreated animals. Blocking of c-Mpl with anti-c-Mpl monoclonal antibody in vivo by injecting the SCID-hu animals resulted in the reduction or loss of CFA. Thus, inhibition, absence, or loss of c-Mpl expression as in the c-Mpl− CD34+ subset of cells is the likely cause of CFA inhibition. Further, CFA of the CD34+ cells segregates with their c-Mpl expression. Therefore, c-Mpl may play a role in hematopoietic inhibition during HIV-1 infection, and control of its expression levels may aid in hematopoietic recovery and thereby reduce the incidence of cytopenias occurring in infected individuals.


1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 1082-1093 ◽  
Author(s):  
S M Daluge ◽  
S S Good ◽  
M B Faletto ◽  
W H Miller ◽  
M H St Clair ◽  
...  

1592U89, (-)-(1S,4R)-4-[2-amino-6-(cyclopropylamino)-9H-purin-9-yl]-2-cyclo pentene-1-methanol, is a carbocyclic nucleoside with a unique biological profile giving potent, selective anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) activity. 1592U89 was selected after evaluation of a wide variety of analogs containing a cyclopentene substitution for the 2'-deoxyriboside of natural deoxynucleosides, optimizing in vitro anti-HIV potency, oral bioavailability, and central nervous system (CNS) penetration. 1592U89 was equivalent in potency to 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) in human peripheral blood lymphocyte (PBL) cultures against clinical isolates of HIV type 1 (HIV-1) from antiretroviral drug-naive patients (average 50% inhibitory concentration [IC50], 0.26 microM for 1592U89 and 0.23 microM for AZT). 1592U89 showed minimal cross-resistance (approximately twofold) with AZT and other approved HIV reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors. 1592U89 was synergistic in combination with AZT, the nonnucleoside RT inhibitor nevirapine, and the protease inhibitor 141W94 in MT4 cells against HIV-1 (IIIB). 1592U89 was anabolized intracellularly to its 5'-monophosphate in CD4+ CEM cells and in PBLs, but the di- and triphosphates of 1592U89 were not detected. The only triphosphate found in cells incubated with 1592U89 was that of the guanine analog (-)-carbovir (CBV). However, the in vivo pharmacokinetic, distribution, and toxicological profiles of 1592U89 were distinct from and improved over those of CBV, probably because CBV itself was not appreciably formed from 1592U89 in cells or animals (<2%). The 5'-triphosphate of CBV was a potent, selective inhibitor of HIV-1 RT, with Ki values for DNA polymerases (alpha, beta, gamma, and epsilon which were 90-, 2,900-, 1,200-, and 1,900-fold greater, respectively, than for RT (Ki, 21 nM). 1592U89 was relatively nontoxic to human bone marrow progenitors erythroid burst-forming unit and granulocyte-macrophage CFU (IC50s, 110 microM) and human leukemic and liver tumor cell lines. 1592U89 had excellent oral bioavailability (105% in the rat) and penetrated the CNS (rat brain and monkey cerebrospinal fluid) as well as AZT. Having demonstrated an excellent preclinical profile, 1592U89 has progressed to clinical evaluation in HIV-infected patients.


Blood ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 80 (8) ◽  
pp. 2128-2135 ◽  
Author(s):  
MP Busch ◽  
TH Lee ◽  
J Heitman

Abstract Various immunologic stimuli and heterologous viral regulatory elements have been shown to increase susceptibility to, and replication of, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in lymphocytes and monocytes in vitro. Transfusion of allogeneic blood components from heterologous donors constitutes a profound immunologic stimulus to the recipient, in addition to being a potential route of transmission of lymphotropic viral infections. To investigate the hypothesis that transfusions, and particularly those containing leukocytes, activate HIV-1 replication in infected recipient cells, we cocultured peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from three anti-HIV-1-positive individuals with allogeneic donor PBMC, as well as partially purified populations of donor lymphocytes, monocytes, granulocytes, platelets, and red blood cells (RBC) and allogeneic cell-free plasma. Allogeneic PBMC induced a dose-related activation of HIV-1 expression in in vivo infected cells, followed by dissemination of HIV-1 to previously uninfected patient cells. Activation of HIV-1 replication was observed with donor lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes, whereas no effect was seen with leukocyte-depleted RBC, platelets, or plasma (ie, therapeutic blood constituents). Allogeneic donor PBMC were also shown to upregulate HIV-1 expression in a “latently” infected cell line, and to increase susceptibility of heterologous donor PBMC to acute HIV-1 infection. Studies should be performed to evaluate whether transfusions of leukocyte-containing blood components accelerate HIV-1 dissemination and disease progression in vivo. If so, HIV-1-infected patients should be transfused as infrequently as possible and leukocyte-depleted (filtered) blood components should be used to avoid this complication.


2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (15) ◽  
pp. 7039-7047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis M. Mansky ◽  
Sandra Preveral ◽  
Luc Selig ◽  
Richard Benarous ◽  
Serge Benichou

ABSTRACT The Vpr protein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) influences the in vivo mutation rate of the virus. Since Vpr interacts with a cellular protein implicated in the DNA repair process, uracil DNA glycosylase (UNG), we have explored the contribution of this interaction to the mutation rate of HIV-1. Single-amino-acid variants of Vpr were characterized for their differential UNG-binding properties and used to trans complement vpr null mutant HIV-1. A striking correlation was established between the abilities of Vpr to interact with UNG and to influence the HIV-1 mutation rate. We demonstrate that Vpr incorporation into virus particles is required to influence the in vivo mutation rate and to mediate virion packaging of the nuclear form of UNG. The recruitment of UNG into virions indicates a mechanism for how Vpr can influence reverse transcription accuracy. Our data suggest that distinct mechanisms evolved in primate and nonprimate lentiviruses to reconcile uracil misincorporation into lentiviral DNA.


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