scholarly journals Hepatitis c virus-specific t-cell-derived transforming growth factor beta is associated with slow hepatic fibrogenesis

Hepatology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 2094-2105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaoyong Li ◽  
Lianne E.M. Vriend ◽  
Imad A. Nasser ◽  
Yury Popov ◽  
Nezam H. Afdhal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
T Cell ◽  
Growth Factor ◽  
Transforming Growth Factor Beta ◽  
Transforming Growth Factor ◽  
Hepatic Fibrogenesis ◽  
Growth Factor Beta

scholarly journals Transforming growth factor beta suppresses human immunodeficiency virus expression and replication in infected cells of the monocyte/macrophage lineage.

1991 ◽  
Vol 173 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Poli ◽  
A L Kinter ◽  
J S Justement ◽  
P Bressler ◽  
J H Kehrl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
T Cell ◽  
Growth Factor ◽  
Cell Line ◽  
Transforming Growth Factor Beta ◽  
Transforming Growth Factor ◽  
Tgf Beta ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Growth Factor Beta

The pleiotropic immunoregulatory cytokine transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) potently suppresses production of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, in the chronically infected promonocytic cell line U1. TGF-beta significantly (50-90%) inhibited HIV reverse transcriptase production and synthesis of viral proteins in U1 cells stimulated with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) or interleukin 6 (IL-6). Furthermore, TGF-beta suppressed PMA induction of HIV transcription in U1 cells. In contrast, TGF-beta did not significantly affect the expression of HIV induced by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). These suppressive effects were not mediated via the induction of interferon alpha (IFN-alpha). TGF-beta also suppressed HIV replication in primary monocyte-derived macrophages infected in vitro, both in the absence of exogenous cytokines and in IL-6-stimulated cultures. In contrast, no significant effects of TGF-beta were observed in either a chronically infected T cell line (ACH-2) or in primary T cell blasts infected in vitro. Therefore, TGF-beta may play a potentially important role as a negative regulator of HIV expression in infected monocytes or tissue macrophages in infected individuals.

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