Attenuated Infectivity of HIV Type 1 from Epithelial Cells Pretreated with a Tight-Binding Nonnucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Short exposure of uninfected lymphocytes to UC781, a tight-binding nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), renders these cells refractory to subsequent HIV infection in the absence of exogenous drug (Borkow et al: J Virol 1997;71:3023-3030). Since epithelial cells may play a role in the sexual transmission of HIV-1, we examined the ability of NNRTI pretreatment to protect ME180 cervical epithelial cells and I407 intestinal epithelial cells from subsequent HIV-1 infection. Epithelial cells were pretreated with NNRTI, then exposed to HIV-1 chronically infected H9(+) cells for a short time following removal of the exogenous drug. The epithelial cells were productively infected by HIV-1, as shown by the presence of integrated HIV-1 proviral DNA, the presence of intracellular p24 antigen, and the production of nascent HIV-1 virions (cell-free p24) at various times postinfection. UC781 pretreatment of the epithelial cells did not prevent HIV-1 infection, since the cells had integrated proviral DNA, but the infectivity of virus subsequently produced from the UC781-treated cells was attenuated in a dose-dependent manner and virtually abolished at UC781 concentrations readily attainable in vivo. In contrast, nevirapine was ineffective in this respect, suggesting that not all NNRTI have microbicidal potential. The abrogation of infectivity of virus produced from UC781-pretreated epithelial cells suggests that this NNRTI may be useful in vaginal microbicide formulations targeted to inhibit HIV-1 in the vaginal/cervical or rectal milieus of a newly exposed individual.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".