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Abstract

Sera of 40 intravenous drug addicts [25 seropositive and 15 seronegative for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)] were tested for the presence of cytotoxic antibodies against uninfected and HIV-infected monocytic U937 cells. Six of the 25 seropositive samples proved to be cytotoxic for HIV-infected target cells in the presence of complement. The pretreatment of HIV-infected U937 cells with tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α (which enhances virus production in these cells) increased the detection of serum cytotoxicity and 60% of these sera became cytotoxic. The percentage lysis was also increased after the TNF-α treatment of the target cells (from 16·2 ± 4·5 to 71·2 ± 4·9). The complement-dependent cytotoxic activity of these sera was significantly reduced by pretreatment with recombinant HIV gp120 antigen. This reduction was dose-dependent in the majority of cases. Immunofluorescence studies suggested that the cytotoxic sera mainly interacted with the viral antigens localized on the membrane of HIV-infected TNF-treated U937 cells. Moreover, comparative Western blot analyses using cellular extracts from untreated and TNF-treated U937 cells showed that there was a positive correlation between the cytotoxic phenotype and the capacity of sera to recognize the gp120 protein in extracts from TNF-treated HIV-infected cells. These results suggest that in some circumstances endogenous TNF-α can be a protective factor because it can render persistently infected cells highly sensitive to complement-dependent serum cytotoxicity as a result of increased expression of the relevant viral antigen (gp120) on the cell membrane.

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