Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: CXCR4-tropic HIV-1 infection in an immunocompetent monkey model
doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-70209-5
Figure Lengend Snippet: A Restriction of HIV-1 by owl monkey TRIMCyp variants. CRFK cells stably expressing 14 TRIMCyp variants were exposed to VSV G-pseudotyped HIV-1-GFP. The percentage of cells expressing GFP was normalized relative to cells not expressing any TRIMCyp. Experiments were performed in two biological replicates, each with two technical replicates; each point is an average of the 2 technical replicates from a biological replicate, and the line is the average. B Screen for mutations in HIV-1 that result in escape from owl monkey TRIMCyp. CRFK cells stably expressing one of two TRIMCyp variants (variant 30 is the most common in the colony) were transduced with an increasing volume of VSV G-pseudotyped HIV-1-GFP containing cyclophilin A-binding loop amino-acid substitutions (G89V , or V86A ) or loops from 25 diverse SIV/HIV lentiviruses as indicated at the top (full set of 25 shown in Figure. ). C Alignment of the cyclophilin A-binding loop of HIV-1 (GenBank # AF324493 ) and SIVrcm (GenBank # AF028608 ), which differ at four amino-acid positions. D HIV-1 replication on owl monkey cells. Hut78 (human) and OMK (owl monkey) cells, both expressing human CD4 and CCR5, were exposed to HIV-1 with or without the four substitutions re-constituting the cyclophilin A-binding loop from SIVrcm as in ( C ) at an MOI = 0.1. Growth curves were generated by measuring the concentration of HIV-1 capsid (CA) in supernatants at the indicated time points. For all panels, source data are provided in the Source Data file.
Article Snippet: Cf2Th cells (ATCC CRL-1430) were transduced to stably express human CCR5 alone (Genbank # NM_001394783 ), or with human (Genbank # NM_000616 ) or various owl monkey CD4 variants.
Techniques: Stable Transfection, Expressing, Variant Assay, Transduction, Binding Assay, Generated, Concentration Assay