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Volume 78, Issue 3, 12 August 1994, Pages 389-398
 
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Conjugates of dendritic cells and memory T lymphocytes from skin facilitate productive infection with HIV-1

M. Poped, M. G. H. Betjesa, N. Romanib, H. Hirmandc, P. U. Camerond, L. Hoffmanc, S. Gezelterd, G. Schulerb and R. M. Steinmand

a Department of Cell Biology Vrije Universiteit 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands b Division of Plastic Surgery Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA c Department of Dermatology University of Innsbruck 6020, Innsbruck, Austria d Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA

Received 6 April 1994; 
Revised 15 June 1994. 
Available online 19 April 2004.

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Abstract

Experimentally, a productive infection with HIV-1 requires that virus be administered to T cells that are activated by mitogens. We describe a productive milieu for HIV-1 within the confines of normal skin that does not require standard stimuli. The milieu consists of dendritic cells and T cells that emigrate from skin and produce distinctive stable, nonproliferating conjugates. These conjugates, upon exposure to each of seven different HIV-1 isolates, begin to release high levels of virus progeny within 4 days. Numerous infected syncytia, comprised of both dendritic and T cells, rapidly develop. We propose that conjugates of dendritic cells and T cells, as found in the external linings of organs involved in sexual transmission of HIV-1, represent an important site for the productive phase of HIV-1 infection. Because the affected T cells carry the memory phenotype, this site additionally provides a mechanism for the chronic depletion of CD4+ memory cells in HIV-1 disease.

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