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SUBMITTER: Camargo JF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2937277 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Camargo Jose F JF Quinones Marlon P MP Mummidi Srinivas S Srinivas Sowmya S Gaitan Alvaro A AA Begum Kazi K Jimenez Fabio F VanCompernolle Scott S Unutmaz Derya D Ahuja Seema S SS Ahuja Sunil K SK
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20090101 1
Ligands of CCR5, the major coreceptor of HIV-1, costimulate T lymphocyte activation. However, the full impact of CCR5 expression on T cell responses remains unknown. Here, we show that compared with CCR5(+/+), T cells from CCR5(-/-) mice secrete lower amounts of IL-2, and a similar phenotype is observed in humans who lack CCR5 expression (CCR5-Delta32/Delta32 homozygotes) as well as after Ab-mediated blockade of CCR5 in human T cells genetically intact for CCR5 expression. Conversely, overexpres ...[more]