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Division of Monoclonal Antibodies, Office of Therapeutics Research and Review, and Divisions of
Viral Products and
Vaccines and Related Products Applications, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892; and
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Genzyme Corp., Framingham, MA 01701
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(MIP-1
). M-CSF facilitates the
growth and differentiation of macrophages, while the chemotactic
properties of MIP-1
attract both T lymphocytes and macrophages to
the site of HIV infection. Studies described in this work indicate
M-CSF may function in an autocrine/paracrine manner to sustain HIV
replication, and data suggest possible therapeutic strategies for
decreasing viral load following HIV infection. We show that macrophage
infection with measles virus or respiratory syncytial virus, in
contrast to HIV-1, results in production of MIP-1
, but not M-CSF.
Thus, M-CSF appears to be specifically produced upon infection of
macrophages with HIV-1. Furthermore, addition of M-CSF antagonists to
HIV-1-infected macrophages, including anti-M-CSF monoclonal or
polyclonal Abs or soluble M-CSF receptors, dramatically inhibited HIV-1
replication and reduced production of MIP-1
. Our results suggest
that biologic antagonists for M-CSF may represent novel strategies for
inhibiting the spread of HIV-1 by 1) blocking virus replication in
macrophages, 2) reducing recruitment of HIV-susceptible T cells and
macrophages by MIP-1
, and 3) preventing the establishment and
maintenance of infected macrophages as a reservoir for
HIV. | Introduction |
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Previous work from our laboratory has demonstrated that monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM) produce endogenous M-CSF following entry and replication of HIV-1 (12). Molecular clones of HIV-1 that bind to CD4, but do not enter or replicate in MDM, fail to induce endogenous M-CSF production (12). Others have shown that exogenous addition of this macrophage survival and differentiation factor to cultures of HIV-1-infected MDM results in enhanced HIV-1 replication (13, 14). This may be due in part to enhanced differentiation and to M-CSF-induced increases in monocyte and macrophage cell surface expression of the HIV-1 receptor and coreceptor, CD4 and CCR5 (14, 15). All reports to date indicate that M-CSF plays a major role in the infection of macrophages with HIV-1.
In this study, we find that MDM infected with MV or RSV, unlike those
infected with HIV-1, do not show enhanced production of M-CSF. MDM
infected with MV or RSV produce significant levels of the
proinflammatory cytokines, IL-6 and TNF-
, while MDM infected with
each of these three viruses resulted in increased production of the ß
chemokine, MIP-1
. Thus, the observed cytokine profile is dependent
upon the virus type used to infect MDM and M-CSF production is unique
to HIV-1-infection. We further show that addition of M-CSF antagonists,
including goat polyclonal anti-M-CSF Ab, murine anti-M-CSF mAb,
and soluble, dimeric, human M-CSF receptors, to cultures of MDM
infected with HIV-1 leads to a dramatic reduction in the level of virus
replication. Taken together, our data suggest that M-CSF antagonists
warrant consideration for therapeutic development for use in HIV
disease to prevent the replication of HIV-1 in cells of the macrophage
lineage.
| Materials and Methods |
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PBMC were isolated from blood following leukapheresis of
HIV-1-seronegative donors and subsequent density-gradient
centrifugation; monocytes were purified by countercurrent centrifugal
cell elutriation, as previously described (12, 16).
Elutriated monocytes were
95% viable, as determined by trypan blue
exclusion and
90% CD14+, as determined by flow
cytometry (FACS) analysis of representative samples. Monocytes were
differentiated in culture for 8 days at 37°C in 5%
CO2 at a concentration of 4 x
106/2 ml in six-well tissue culture plates
(Costar, Cambridge, MA) using DMEM (Life Technologies, Gaithersburg,
MD) complete medium containing 10% pooled human serum, 2 mM
L-glutamine (Life Technologies), 1 mM sodium pyruvate (Life
Technologies), and penicillin (50 U/ml)/streptomycin (50 µg/ml) (Life
Technologies) to generate MDM. All reagents used in the isolation and
culture of MDM were tested for endotoxin and found to contain less than
0.03 endotoxin U/ml (<3 pg/ml).
Virus infection of monocyte-derived macrophages
HIV-1. MDM were harvested by scraping and plated into 24-well tissue culture plates (Nunc, Naperville, IL), at a concentration of 500,000 cells/ml, 1.5 ml/well. After 2448 h, MDM were infected with HIV-1ADA, as previously described (12). HIV-1ADA was obtained through the AIDS Research and Reference Reagent Program (ARRRP), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), from Dr. H. Gendelman (17, 18), then expanded in human monocytes before purification by ultracentrifugation (Advanced Biotechnologies, Columbia, MD). Every 3 days thereafter, 80% of the culture medium was collected, stored at -80o, then replaced. In some experiments, AZT (Sigma, St. Louis, MO) was added at a concentration of 1 µM following virus adsorption and replenished every 3 days. In other experiments, polyclonal goat anti-M-CSF Ab (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN), murine anti-M-CSF mAb (R&D Systems), or soluble M-CSF receptors consisting of the extracellular domain of the human M-CSF receptor fused to the Fc portion of human IgG1 (R&D Systems) were added after virus adsorption and replenished every 3 days. The concentration of Ab or soluble receptor added was sufficient to neutralize 100 ng/ml of M-CSF bioactivity, as determined by M-CSF bioassay (data not shown).
MDM cultures infected with HIV-1 were generally maintained in DMEM complete medium, as described above; however, when MDM were infected in parallel with HIV-1, MV, and RSV, 10% inactivated FCS (HyClone, Logan, UT) was used instead of pooled human serum (PHS) to counter the presence of any naturally occurring anti-measles or anti-RSV Abs in the PHS and used in HIV-1-infected cultures to control for the use of different media components.
A reverse-transcriptase (RT) assay was used to measure the progression of infection in MDM infected with HIV-1. The RT assay used is a 3H-based modification of the methods described by Hoffman (19). Values shown reflect the average of duplicate samples (cpm/25 µl) that differed by not more than 15%.
MV and RSV. MDM were harvested and replated as described above. After 2448 h, MDM were infected with MV or RSV. MV (Edmonston strain) and RSV (A2 strain) were grown in Vero cells (African Green Monkey kidney) cultured in Eagles MEM (Mediatech, Herndon, VA) supplemented with 5% FBS (BioWhittaker, Walkersville, MD), 4 mM L-glutamine (BioWhittaker), penicillin (50 U/ml), and streptomycin (50 µg/ml) (Quality Biological, Gaithersburg, MD), fungizone (2.5 µg/ml) (Quality Biological), and gentamicin (0.1 mg/ml) (Quality Biological). MV and RSV were concentrated by pelleting directly from infected tissue culture supernatants and resuspended in serum-free Eagles MEM containing 100 mM MgSO4 (Fisher Scientific, Fair Lawn, NJ) and 50 mM HEPES (BioWhittaker), then used to infect MDM at a multiplicity of infection of 0.1 tissue culture-infective dose50 per cell. MDM and culture supernatants were harvested on days 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 after infection. Viral titers were determined on Vero cell monolayers and end point titers determined by the method of Reed and Muench (20).
Cytokine assays
M-CSF bioactivity was determined by measuring the
proliferation of the M-CSF-dependent cell line, M-NFS-60, as previously
described (12, 21, 22). A Titertek Multiscan 340 plate
reader (ICN Biomedicals, Costa Mesa, CA) was used to measure
absorbances. The limit of detection for this assay is 1.5 ng M-CSF/ml.
Commercial ELISA kits were used to detect the following cytokines:
TNF-
, IL-6, and MIP-1
(R&D Systems). The limits of detection for
these assays were 4.4, 0.7, and 7 pg/ml, respectively.
Northern blot analysis of total cellular RNA
Total RNA was isolated from MDM using Ultraspec total RNA isolation reagent (Biotecx, Houston, TX). RNA was fractionated on 1% agarose gels containing formaldehyde and transferred to Duralon-UV membranes (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA). The membranes were hybridized with a 32P-labeled probe specific for M-CSF at 42°C overnight in hybridization buffer (Digene, Silver Spring, MD). The membranes were then washed with 2x SSC containing 0.1% SDS at room temperature, followed by a wash with 0.1x SSC containing 0.1% SDS at 63°C. Blots were exposed to Kodak X-OMAT film at -70°C.
| Results |
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Several viruses have the capacity to infect human monocytes and
macrophages (2). To determine whether production of M-CSF
is a global response of MDM following virus infection, two RNA viruses
other than HIV-1 were tested for the ability to enhance production of
endogenous M-CSF. MDM were infected in parallel with purified
preparations of HIV-1ADA, MV (Edmonston strain),
or RSV (strain A2). As shown in Table I
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all viruses tested were capable of replicating in MDM, albeit with
varying kinetics. Titers observed for MV and RSV either exceeded or
were consistent with those observed by others upon infection of human
macrophages (4, 5, 7). However, only MDM infected with
HIV-1 showed enhanced production of M-CSF. MDM infected with MV or RSV
show little or no detectable M-CSF (Table I
). In contrast, production
of MIP-1
by virus-infected MDM was observed with each virus tested.
Production of MIP-1
following infection of MDM with MV or RSV was
greatest early in the course of infection, while production by
HIV-1-infected MDM paralleled the kinetics of virus replication (Table I
). When culture supernatants from the infected MDM were examined for
production of proinflammatory cytokines, MDM infected with HIV-1 had no
detectable TNF-
or IL-6, while MDM infected with MV or RSV showed
significant production of these two cytokines, as previously reported
(6, 7, 10, 11). Production of these cytokines was not
detected in long-term cultures of uninfected MDM. However, elevated
basal production of M-CSF was occasionally observed early after
transfer of MDM from medium containing human serum to medium containing
FCS (Table I
). Taken together, these data suggest that enhanced
production of M-CSF is unique to HIV-1-infected MDM.
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We have previously shown that infection of MDM with
HIV-1ADA or HIV-1BAL can
induce M-CSF production, while infectious molecular clones of HIV-1
that bind CD4, but fail to enter and replicate in human MDM, do not
induce M-CSF protein secretion (12). To determine whether
viral entry alone could lead to enhanced M-CSF production, we studied
the effects of the nucleoside analogue, AZT, an inhibitor of HIV
replication, on M-CSF production in MDM cultures infected with HIV-1.
We found that AZT completely inhibited virus replication in the
HIV-1-infected MDM cultures (Fig. 1
A) and prevented the
production of biologically active M-CSF at the protein (Fig. 1
B) and mRNA (Fig. 2
) levels.
Comparable levels of inhibition were observed in six separate
experiments using MDM obtained from different HIV-1-seronegative
donors. These results therefore indicate that entry of intact,
replication competent HIV-1 alone, without productive infection, does
not stimulate M-CSF production.
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The observations that enhanced M-CSF production is unique
to HIV-1-infected MDM and requires active viral replication led us to
ask whether blocking the biological activity of M-CSF would inhibit
HIV-1 replication in MDM. M-CSF antagonists, including goat polyclonal
anti-M-CSF Ab (p
M-CSF), murine anti-M-CSF mAb (m
M-CSF),
and soluble, dimeric, human M-CSF receptors (M-CSF-R:Fc) were added to
HIV-1-infected MDM cultures following virus adsorption. Inclusion of
these antagonists, which bind to M-CSF and prevent it from interacting
with its receptor, resulted in a dramatic decrease in the level of
HIV-1 replication (Fig. 3
). Data shown
are representative of four experiments performed with these antagonists
using MDM obtained from different normal donors. The levels of M-CSF
antagonist-mediated HIV-1 inhibition observed for all four donors were
tested for significance by a one-way ANOVA, followed by the post hoc
Tukey test to measure differences among groups. Inhibition observed for
the three antagonists on days 21 and 24 postinfection had p
values <0.05 and were considered significant. We found no discernible
differences between macrophage morphology or viability in
HIV-1-infected control cultures or those treated with M-CSF
antagonists. There were also no observed changes in the pH of control
vs antagonist-treated macrophage cultures, which would accompany
changes in cell metabolism and subsequent loss of viability. Control
Abs, including purified goat IgG, murine IgG2A, and human IgG1, used in
the M-CSF antagonist experiments cause no reduction in HIV-1
replication (data not shown). Thus, M-CSF plays a critical role in the
production of HIV-1 by infected MDM.
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The kinetics of M-CSF and MIP-1
production parallel HIV
replication in MDM. Because antagonists to M-CSF proved to be effective
inhibitors of HIV replication, we next determined whether levels of
MIP-1
production were concomitantly decreased. As shown in Fig. 4
, treatment of HIV-1-infected MDM with
levels of M-CSF antagonists that are capable of inhibiting HIV
replication (Fig. 3
) reduces the level and delays the kinetics of
MIP-1
production. These data suggest a critical role for M-CSF
antagonists in ablating the recruitment and subsequent infection of
human macrophages with HIV-1.
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| Discussion |
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, IL-6, and MIP-1
. The specificity of
M-CSF production has led us to propose a model cytokine network for
regulating HIV infection of MDM in which M-CSF functions in an
autocrine and paracrine manner to establish and maintain a population
of HIV-infected macrophages (Fig. 5
secretion, thereby
blocking production of virus by infected macrophages and the spread of
infection to infiltrating cells.
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The ß chemokine, MIP-1
, is also produced by MDM in response to
infection with HIV-1 (27, 28). MIP-1
is a chemotactic
factor that attracts monocytes and T cells (29, 30) and,
along with MIP-1ß and RANTES, is a natural ligand for the HIV-1
coreceptor CCR5 (31). Thus, in addition to its chemotactic
properties, MIP-1
produced by infected cells could bind to CCR5 and
reduce the level of HIV binding and entry. However, MIP-1
levels
produced in vitro by HIV-1-infected MDM (<10 ng/ml) are substantially
lower than the concentrations of CCR5 ligands required to inhibit HIV-1
replication (32, 33), suggesting that the HIV-inhibitory
contribution of MIP-1
would be substantially less than its
chemotactic effects. Similar to our findings with M-CSF, MIP-1
production by HIV-1-infected MDM is also dependent on viral replication
(27, 28), but it is not specific for HIV-1. Intriguingly,
it has recently been shown that production of MIP-1
, but not M-CSF,
is regulated by the HIV-1 nef protein (34). A
role for HIV accessory proteins in the regulation of M-CSF production
has yet to be defined and is currently under investigation in our
laboratory.
In contrast to MIP-1
, we find that M-CSF production may be a
specific response of human MDM to infection with HIV-1 and does not
represent a global response of macrophages to virus infection.
Furthermore, because M-CSF production enhances and sustains HIV-1
replication in macrophages, it is most likely responsible for
maintaining a macrophage viral reservoir. Clinical trials for
HIV-infected patients using highly active antiretroviral therapy
(HAART) reported a prolonged absence of plasma viremia, followed by a
rapid viral rebound upon discontinuation of therapy, suggesting a
failure of this approach to eradicate HIV in existing viral reservoirs
(35). Recent studies have been conducted using the
cytokine, IL-2, in combination with HAART to activate HIV-1-infected T
cell reservoirs and render them susceptible to therapy
(36). However, other potential reservoirs exist, including
the macrophage, which would not be affected by this approach.
Development of M-CSF antagonists for treatment of HIV-infected
individuals may be helpful in controlling the spread of the virus by
targeting the macrophage reservoir for HIV-1. Used in conjunction with
HAART therapy, M-CSF antagonists as biologic therapeutics would inhibit
HIV infection of macrophages, reduce recruitment of HIV-susceptible T
cells and monocytes, and prevent the establishment and maintenance of a
macrophage reservoir for HIV.
| Acknowledgments |
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2 Abbreviations used in this paper: MV, measles virus; HAART, highly active antiretroviral therapy; MDM, monocyte-derived macrophage; MIP, macrophage-inflammatory protein; RSV, respiratory syncytial virus; RT, reverse transcriptase. ![]()
Received for publication November 22, 1999. Accepted for publication February 22, 2000.
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