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IMMUNOBIOLOGY
From the Dorrance H. Hamilton Laboratories, Center for
Human Virology, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of
Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University,
Philadelphia, PA; and the Molecular Targets Drug Discovery Program and
Development, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute,
Frederick, MD.
Prostratin is a unique phorbol ester that stimulates protein
kinase C activity but is nontumor promoting. Remarkably, prostratin is
also able to inhibit de novo human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection yet up-regulate viral expression from latent proviruses. Prostratin's lack of tumor promotion, coupled with its
ability to block viral spread yet induce latent proviral expression, prompted studies to determine whether this compound could serve as an
inductive adjuvant therapy for patients treated with highly active
antiretroviral therapy (HAART). The current experiments indicate that
prostratin is a potent mitogen for mononuclear phagocytes possessing many of the activities of phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) with notable functional differences. Prostratin, like PMA, accelerates differentiation of the myeloid cell-lines, HL-60 and THP-1,
as well as mononuclear phagocytes from bone marrow and peripheral
blood. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and gene array analyses
indicate significant changes in the expression of proteins and
messenger RNA after treatment of cells with prostratin, consistent with
phagocyte activation and differentiation. Prostratin blocks HIV-1
infection relating to down-regulation of CD4 receptor expression. The
array analysis indicates a similar down-regulation of the HIV-1
coreceptors, CXCR4 and CCR5, and this may also reduce viral infectivity
of treated host cells. Finally, prostratin is capable of up-regulating
HIV-1 expression from CD8+ T lymphocyte-depleted
peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients undergoing HAART. This
novel observation suggests the agent may be an excellent candidate to
augment HAART by inducing expression of latent HIV-1 with the ultimate
goal of eliminating persistent viral reservoirs in certain individuals
infected with HIV-1.
(Blood. 2001;98:3006-3015) Prostratin (12-deoxyphorbol 13-acetate) is a unique
phorbol ester that lacks tumor-promoting ability even at doses 100 times higher than those sufficient for oncogenesis induced by phorbol myristate acetate (PMA).1 Nonetheless, prostratin
stimulates protein kinase C (PKC) enzymatic activity in vitro,
similar to PMA, as well as other bioactive phorbol esters and
remarkably also exhibits additional important activities including its
ability to inhibit the replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1).1,2 This inhibition of HIV-1 replication is
partially related to prostratin's down-regulation of CD4 receptor
expression on target host cells suggesting that prostratin is capable
of inhibiting viral spread. Conversely, prostratin up-regulates
expression of viral gene products from latent proviral templates, such
as those that are harbored in UI and ACH-2 cell lines.2
This is a property that prostratin shares with PMA and other mitogenic agents. Prostratin's lack of oncogenic potential coupled with its
ability to block HIV-1 viral spread yet up-regulate latent HIV-1
provirus expression are important features that could perhaps be
exploited as an effective adjuvant inductive therapy for patients treated with virally suppressive highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).
Many individuals infected with HIV-1 treated with HAART generally
manifest a sharp decrease in plasma-borne virus, and their prognosis is
very good with regard to a rebound in immune system functions. Viral
reservoirs, refractory to HAART, nonetheless persist.3 A
withdrawal of HAART from patients can result in re-emergence of
circulating virus; therefore, current anti-HIV-1 research efforts are
increasingly focused on strategies for eliminating latent viral
reservoirs that persist despite HAART. Studies were initiated to
determine whether prostratin could be an effective agent to either
specifically inhibit HIV-1 spread or induce latent proviral expression
from patients on HIV-1 suppressive HAART. Initially, a striking
activity of prostratin was noted. A rapid increase in the number of
adherent phagocytes from peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC)
cultures was observed within hours after a single exposure to
prostratin in micromolar concentrations or less. This effect occurred
following treatment of both human and murine in vitro bone marrow
cultures. PMA shares this property with prostratin and is as effective
at equivalent concentrations.
Prostratin, like PMA, also induces differentiation of the promonocytic
cell lines, HL-60 and THP-1, as noted by their rapid adherence to
plastic and subsequent morphologic changes indicative of maturing
macrophages. Our studies further indicate a coincidence between the
increase in the induction of adherent phagocytes with an up-regulation
of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF- We further establish that prostratin has an antireplicative effect on
HIV-1 in PBMC cultures extending previous studies2 by
demonstrating this effect for 3 viral strains with distinctive tropisms Cell cultures and proliferation
Prostratin and HIV-1 infection
Gene array analysis The THP-1 cells (5 × 106) were grown in individual wells of a 6-well plate. One population was treated with a single dose 0.3 µM prostratin. Total RNA was then extracted 24 hours later from treated and untreated cells using the RNAgents kit from Promega (Madison, WI). Synthesis of complementary DNA (cDNA) from 2 µg total RNA from each of the conditions was performed using an array-specific primer set provided by Sigma-Genosys (Woodlands, TX) and radiolabeled by incorporation of -32P-CTP (NEN)
according to kit instructions except for use of 2 U Superscript enzyme
and RNAse OUT, both obtained from Gibco BRL (Rockville, MD). Labeled
cDNAs were hybridized to the filters overnight at 68°C and then
washed as recommended by Sigma-Genosys. Image data were captured using
a Molecular Dynamics phosphoimager. Analysis of the data to quantitate
gene expression level differences was performed by Sigma-Genosys. The 2 samples compared were standardized one to the other using total genomic
DNA controls at the edges of the filters (not shown), as well as
standardizing against selected housekeeping genes visually apparent in
the last lane on the right side of the array image.
Dose response of CD4 down-regulation by prostratin on CD4+ T-cell populations The PBMCs were isolated from an HIV-1-seronegative donor by Histopaque density centrifugation and cultured overnight in complete RPMI 1640 to partially deplete macrophages. The next day helper T cells were isolated using the MACS CD4 Positive T Cell isolation kit from Miltenyi Biotec (Auburn, CA) as per the manufacturer's recommended protocol. Briefly, 3 × 108 PBMCs were incubated with saturating hapten-conjugated antibodies against CD8, CD11b, CD16, CD19, CD36, and CD56 antibodies. The non-T helper cells were magnetically labeled by using MACS microbeads that are coupled to an antihapten antibody. More than 99% of the resultant cells were CD4+ as measured by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). PBMCs (1 × 108) were then depleted of HLA-DR+ cells using the MACS HLA-DR microbeads from Miltenyi Biotec as per the manufacturer's recommendation again with the protocol yielding a greater than 99% CD4+ HLA-DR-resting T-cell population. Then, 5 × 106 of the isolated CD4+ T cells and CD4+ HLA-DR-resting T cells were each plated in 10 wells of a 24-well tissue culture plate. Each of the cell populations were exposed in duplicate to doses of 0, 0.1, 0.3, 1, and 1.5 µM prostratin and incubated for 48 hours. Cells (1 × 106) from each of the cell populations were then double-stained with saturating titers of monoclonal antibodies, anti-CD4-quantum red and anti-CD3-fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC; Sigma). The cells were analyzed by flow cytometry gating for CD3 and measuring the mean fluorescence of the anti-CD4 antibody above an unstained control.Stimulation of latent HIV-1 by prostratin or PMA Duplicate populations of 1 × 106 U1 cells were treated with doses of 0.1, 0.3, 0.9, or 2.7 µM of either prostratin or PMA, as well as a population treated with 10 µg/mL phytohemagglutinin (PHA). Supernatant samples were drawn daily for 4 days, stored at 80°C, and analyzed for p24 concentration using
commercial high-range ELISA (Zeptometrix).
Induction of HIV-1 expression from patient PBMCs of infected individuals on HAART with prostratin Blood samples were collected via peripheral phlebotomy from 6 HIV-1-seropositive patients receiving HAART consistently with fewer than 50 copies of viral RNA per milliliter in the peripheral blood plasma as determined by standard clinical reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (Quest Diagnostics, Teterboro, NJ).4 Patients signed institutional review board-approved consent forms. PBMCs, depleted of CD8+ T cells, were isolated as described previously,5 suspended in complete RPMI 1640 medium supplemented with 0.1% gentamicin (Gibco BRL), then equally divided within a 6-well tissue culture plate. Cells were treated with PHA from Sigma, IL-2 from Gibco BRL,5 prostratin/PHA/IL-2, prostratin/IL-2, prostratin alone, and prostratin continuously added with IL-2. On day 0, PHA was added to one well to a final concentration of 10 µg/mL, and prostratin was added to a final concentration of 0.263 µM to the remaining wells. Forty-eight hours after treatment, the PBMCs were resuspended in fresh culture medium and the supernatants were retained at80°C as the initial time point. A
second dose to 0.263 µM prostratin was added to the initial
prostratin wells and wells requiring IL-2 were maintained with 50 IU/mL
IL-2 for the remainder of the experiment. Cultures were maintained for
6 to 8 weeks. A coculture of PHA and IL-2-stimulated CD8+
T cell-depleted PBMCs from HIV-1-seronegative donors,
collected as described above, was added to each of the wells at this
point as well.4 Supernatant aliquots were obtained and
frozen once or twice per week, then assayed subsequently for p24
antigen via ELISA (NEN or Zeptometrix). Once a week the samples were
replenished with 1 × 106 CD8+ T
cell-depleted PHA/IL-2-stimulated PBMCs from HIV-1-seronegative individuals. The continuous prostratin/IL-2 regimen was reconstituted to 0.263 µM prostratin weekly. Samples from 2 initial patients were
treated with a truncated protocol. The first sample, designated "patient 5," lacked the PHA/prostratin with IL-2 and continuous prostratin/IL-2 condition but had a no mitogen addition. The second patient, designated "patient 1," had continuous prostratin with IL-2 but lacked the PHA/prostratin/IL-2 addition. All remaining samples
were treated with regimens as described above.
Effect of prostratin on human PBMCs Human PBMCs were cultured in the presence of 0.263 µM prostratin or other mitogens and cytokines. As shown in Figure 1B, numerous cells began to adhere to the bottom surface of the culture dish within a few hours after exposure to prostratin, indicating rapid differentiation of mononuclear phagocytes within the cell cultures. This effect was not observed for treatment of the same population of cells with dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), absent prostratin, nor observed with PHA, IL-2, or a combination of PHA and IL-2 (Figure 1A). Pronounced phagocyte adherence also occurred after treatment of human (not shown) and murine bone marrow cells cultured in vitro as illustrated in Figure 1D, as compared to a duplicate marrow culture treated with PHA and IL-2 in Figure 1C. The adherent cells expressed high levels of nonspecific esterase activity indicative of differentiated and maturing macrophages (data not shown).
The effect of prostratin on the proliferation of nonadherent cells was
also of interest because the compound appeared to be a reasonably
potent mitogen for phagocytes. The proliferation of the nonadherent
cells was gauged by removing aliquots of cells from the treated
cultures consisting of either no addition of compound, DMSO,
prostratin, PHA/IL-2, or PHA alone. PHA/IL-2 treatment induced a large
increase in the number of cells. When PHA or IL-2 was added
individually, an intermediary effect on cellular proliferation was
observed. Cell numbers for DMSO and no compound addition cultures remained relatively constant over the course of measurement. As shown
in Figure 2, no significant increase in
nonadherent cell number occurred after treatment of PBMCs with a single
dose of prostratin at 0.263 µM. It should be noted that some cells
remained tightly attached to the adherent phagocytes on the dish
surface after prostratin treatment, which could have led to a slight
underestimate of nonadherent cell number.
Differentiation of HL-60 and THP-1 promonocytic cell lines The HL-60 and THP-1 cell lines were established from patients with acute promonocytic leukemia and acute monocytic leukemias, respectively.6,7 HL-60 cells are capable of differentiating into granulocytes, monocytes, or eosinophils, or they become macrophagelike depending on the inducer. However, HL-60 and THP-1 cells differentiate along the macrophage lineage on exposure to phorbol esters such as 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) or PMA.8 Differentiation of these suspension cell lines occurs rapidly with even a single exposure to such inducers marked by rapid adherence to plastic surfaces or each other. Over time, the treated cells developed a broad, flat, rounded cytoplasm. These classical morphologic criteria for differentiation were monitored for both cell lines in a dose response to PMA and prostratin.The cell lines were exposed to concentrations of 0.1, 0.3, 0.9, and 2.7 µM PMA or prostratin. Adherence occurred most prominently at 0.3 and
0.9 µM; a reduction in cell number and cellular fragmentation, indicative of cell death, occurred for both compounds at 2.7 µM. A
modest increase in the number of adherent HL-60 cells with prostratin versus PMA occurred (not shown). THP-1 cells behaved differently with
more adherent cells evident after PMA treatment versus prostratin at
both 0.3- and 0.9-µM concentrations. As shown in Figure
3, the THP-1 cells reversed phenotype,
rounded up, and detached from the plastic surface and resumed
proliferation by day 5 after prostratin treatment, whereas PMA-treated
cells retained a uniform morphology typical of mature macrophage. The
cells in panel D of Figure 3 appear morphologically identical to
untreated THP-1 suspension cells.
Mechanism of action of prostratin based on changes in expression of multiple genes Three approaches were used to detect changes in the levels of gene expression ELISA, gene array, and FACS analysisto determine the
mechanisms of action of this unique phorbol ester. Gene array analysis
was used to assess changes in the expression of multiple genes within
several functional classes. This seemed warranted because prostratin is
a unique nontumor-promoting phorbol ester, yet exhibits appealing
characteristics relative to the expression and replication of HIV-1,
which are likely influenced by changes in multiple pathways rather than
by the modulation in expression of a few individual host genes.
Initially, PBMCs isolated from HIV-1-seronegative donors were treated
with a variety of stimulatory compounds and controls, including
prostratin, as well as PHA/IL-2, PHA alone, IL-2 alone, DMSO, or no
addition. ELISA indicated no significant change in IL-3 levels (data
not shown). Increased numbers of macrophages were observed in
prostratin-treated cultures, as noted previously. This suggested that
TNF-
Next, gene array analysis was used to obtain a comprehensive display of changes in mRNA expression related to prostratin induction. The effects of prostratin on the promonocytic cell line, THP-1, were monitored because, unlike PBMCs, they represent a single cell type and would be more likely to respond uniformly relative to primary cells isolated from various donors. THP-1 cells are also partially differentiated toward the macrophage phenotype and therefore it was hypothesized the analysis would be less complex than treated cells of a more naïve state. Total RNA was isolated from untreated THP-1 cells or the same cells
exposed to 0.3 µM prostratin for 24 hours. Radiolabeled cDNA was
synthesized from the 2 sets of total RNAs and then hybridized to the
array filter set. Figure 5 illustrates
the primary data captured by the phosphoimager for each gene position.
The gene pixel value for each position was expressed as a fraction of
the total pixels in the array (filter A, no treatment; filter B,
prostratin treatment) after subtracting the pixels contributed by the
genomic DNA pixel values. This was performed to normalize pixel values to the untreated control sample, because the overall level of radiolabeled cDNAs hybridized to the filter for the prostratin-treated THP-1 cells was somewhat greater. After this equilibration, the increases in gene expression were determined as B/A pixel data for
filter B values greater than filter A values. The fold decrease induced
by prostratin was determined as a fraction of A/B in those instances
where B pixel values were less than the A pixel values. A 2-fold or
greater increase in expression was noted for 80 genes, and a 2-fold or
greater decrease was identified for 34 genes comparing treated versus
untreated cells. Table 1 lists the gene
name and fold increase or decrease for the first 35 genes of each
category.
Differences in mRNA expression levels were consistent with
differentiation and activation of THP-1 cells toward a macrophagelike phenotype demonstrated clearly in Figure 3. For example, phagocyte attachment to plastic, involving deposition of an extracellular matrix,
would include up-regulation of integrin genes and matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-7, MMP-8, and MMP-9).10 Cytokines
and, in particular, many of the interleukin family of genes showed increased expression levels, including their receptors as indicated in
Table 1. The same was evident for the interferon family of genes and
their receptors. Remarkably, TNF- There was a 4-fold up-regulation of the Down-regulation of CD4 surface receptor also occurred after prostratin
treatment in a dose-dependent manner on CD4+ or
CD4+HLA-DR CD4+ and CD4+HLA-DR
Prostratin inhibition of HIV-1 infection It was previously reported that prostratin possessed a dual role in affecting HIV-1 infection and replication.1,2 Prostratin not only stimulated HIV-1 expression in latently infected U1 and ACH-2 cells, but it was also able to inhibit de novo infection of treated T-lymphotropic cell lines.1,2 To extend these observations, human PBMCs from uninfected donors were treated with prostratin 48 hours before infection with BAL, an M-CCR5-tropic strain, or NL4-3, a T-cell line (CXCR4)-tropic strain of HIV-1, or finally 89.6, a dual-tropic viral strain. The concentration of cell-free p24 antigen was determined by ELISA and served as a means for monitoring the effects of prostratin on spreading HIV-1 infection. As shown in Figure 7, cultures treated with prostratin prior to infection with all 3 HIV-1 strains generated less p24 antigen than untreated controls, supporting the inhibitory role of prostratin on de novo infection of host cells by HIV-1.2
Induction of HIV-1 expression in U1 cells with prostratin versus PMA We extended previous observations of prostratin-induced proviral DNA expression by comparing PMA and prostratin up-regulation expression of latent HIV-1 proviral DNA within U1 cells in a dose-dependent manner. Because prostratin and PMA are functionally distinct, it was of interest to determine whether differences between the activities of these compounds might correlate with their potency to up-regulate viral expression.Therefore, U1 cells were used to compare the responsiveness of
viral up-regulation following exposure to these related phorbol esters.
Duplicate U1 cell populations were treated with 0.1, 0.3, 0.9, and 2.7 µM PMA or prostratin. PMA induced several-fold higher levels of viral
expression for all concentrations except the highest dose, as shown in
Figure 8. PMA, at 2.7 µM, was cytotoxic
and may account for low viral production at that concentration. PMA induced a steady increase in viral expression at the 2 lowest concentrations. Prostratin behaved differently than PMA in that the
optimal dose for viral expression was 0.9 µM. The lower
concentrations and the highest at 2.7 µM had little effect on viral
induction. Like PMA, prostratin appeared to be cytotoxic at the highest
concentration with reduced numbers of surviving cells and visible
cellular fragmentation.
Prostratin clearly induces virus expression at an optimal dose but, unlike PMA, the effect appears transient with a steady decline of virus release beginning 2 days after treatment. This transient character of prostratin's effects, relative to PMA, is reminiscent of observations shown in Figure 3 and likely reflects the restricted action of this unique phorbol. Nonetheless, both compounds were significantly more effective at stimulating latent virus than PHA, as indicated in Figure 8. Induction of HIV-1 expression from the PBMCs of HIV-1-infected individuals on virally suppressive HAART In most patients, HAART reduces circulating HIV-1 to undetectable levels; however, sanctuary sites harboring replication-competent proviral DNA persist.3 A number of mitogens and cytokines have been shown to up-regulate expression of latent proviral DNAs in HIV-1-infected cells; however, they are generally lethally proinflammatory or tumor promoting.9 These features limit their usefulness to induce expression of HIV-1 from reservoir sites within patients on HAART to promote viral clearance. Given this, the potentially advantageous properties of prostratin were explored with experiments focused on determining whether prostratin could up-regulate HIV-1 expression from latent virus within cultured PBMCs of HIV-1-infected patients on suppressive HAART.Although prostratin exhibited a heterogeneous effect on HIV-1
production from PBMCs of a cohort of individuals infected with HIV-1 on
suppressive HAART, the compound was nonetheless able to up-regulate
viral expression in cells isolated from 4 of 6 patients. As illustrated
in Figure 9, cells from patient 1 elicited the most robust response for viral expression after PHA/IL-2
treatment with high levels of viral production within the first week.
Prostratin/IL-2 exposure and even prostratin alone also subsequently
induced considerable virus expression. Weekly redosing of the cells
with prostratin elicited a weaker then abortive response from patient 1 late in the course of treatment. The abortive response may relate to
prostratin's ability to block spreading infection to the
HIV-1-seronegative donor cells. In contrast, cells from patient 2 failed to produce virus with PHA/IL-2. Patient 2 cells underwent p24
antigen release after the second week with prostratin/IL-2. In the
third week, both the prostratin/IL-2 and prostratin continuous/IL-2
conditions showed low peaks of p24 antigen production. Interestingly,
continuous administration of prostratin quickly attenuated its
stimulatory affect on viral production in contrast to single
administration of prostratin/IL-2. The PHA/prostratin/IL-2 regimen
failed to stimulate p24 antigen production, suggesting an interference
effect with combined use of these mitogens because prostratin/IL-2,
without the PHA, was able to stimulate p24 antigen production.
Like cells from patient 2, cells from patient 4 responded to prostratin/IL-2, and also responded to PHA/prostratin/IL-2, though they did not produce virus with PHA/IL-2, indicating that prostratin was likely the common effector for up-regulation of virus production, as well as in the PHA/prostratin/IL-2 condition. This is in contrast to cells from patient 2, in which PHA appeared to inhibit viral production in conjunction with prostratin/IL-2. Cells from patients 3 and 4 produced only low levels of virus. Cells from patient 3 expressed the most virus after PHA/IL-2 treatment, albeit at quite low levels, peaking at about 500 pg/mL and aborting during the experimental course. PHA/IL-2 treatment began to produce p24 antigen early in the second week; prostratin and continuous prostratin/IL-2 demonstrated a very low level of p24 antigen production that was rapidly aborted. In the third week as with the PHA/IL-2 conditions p24 antigen levels were falling from a plateau; there was a transient low level peak of p24 antigen from the PHA/prostratin/IL-2 condition, giving evidence of a potential antagonistic effect between these compounds. The cells from patients 5 and 6 responded vigorously only to PHA/IL-2 and not to any of the prostratin-containing conditions. Significantly, cells from patient 6 gave no p24 production in the PHA/prostratin/IL-2 condition, indicating that the prostratin was able to inhibit either viral expression or spread despite the scale of viral production after treatment with the PHA/IL-2 combination alone.
The initial discovery of anti-HIV-1 properties of prostratin was based on an empirical anti-HIV-1 bioassay-guided fractionation and purification of individual chemical constituents from solvent extracts of the tropical plant, Homalanthus nutans.1 The plant has an interesting history of usage in traditional herbal medicine, primarily for the treatment of jaundice, and is particularly prominent in Samoan ethnapharmacology.12 Prostratin is 12-deoxyphorbol-13-acetate and a member of a general structural class of compounds well known for tumor-promoting properties. A classical example of a tumor-promoting phorbol ester is PMA.13 Like the tumor-promoting phorbols, prostratin potently activates PKC in vitro. However, prostratin conspicuously lacks an oxygen functionality associated with a lengthy hydrophobic membrane targeting chain at position C-12, in contrast to typical tumor-promoting phorbol esters. This feature may permit prostratin to actually act in vivo as a physiologic antagonist for certain PKC-mediated processes, especially those underlying tumor promotion. Thus, prostratin substantially lacks chemical and biologic properties that have previously discouraged consideration of phorbols for specific PKC-targeted drug development. The detailed molecular interactions of prostratin with particular PKC isoforms that convey its unique attributes remain to be elucidated. Nevertheless, the apparent lack of oncogenic potential of prostratin, combined with its ability to inhibit HIV-1 infection, as well as stimulate latent lentivirus expression, presently qualify it for further consideration as a novel candidate for therapeutic development. At the outset, it was evident that prostratin, like PMA, is a potent mitogen. The gross effects of prostratin on primary cells were consistent with effects of related phorbol esters inducing rapid attachment of phagocytes to the surface of the culture dishes after treatment of PBMCs or marrow cultures. In the absence of prostratin treatment, this process would ordinarily occur over a period of days.14 In each case, the adherent cells were strongly positive for nonspecific esterase activity indicative of the macrophage phenotype. Gross effects induced by prostratin on the nonadherent population of cells derived from PBMCs were not observed, thereby focusing our analyses of the effect of prostratin treatment of the myeloid lineage. Additional studies were initiated using 2 well-characterized cell-lines, HL-60 and THP-1, to define the activities of this unique phorbol ester on promonocytes and monocytes directly, because primary PBMCs represent a heterogeneous mixture of cell types. HL-60 cells were derived from a 36-year-old woman with acute promyelocytic leukemia.6 These cells have properties consistent with leukemic promyelocytes and are capable of terminal differentiation suggesting a dissociation of genetic control elements for replication and commitment to differentiation.6 In contrast, the THP-1 cell line was derived from blood cells of a
1-year-old boy with acute monocytic leukemia.7 The cell line is considered to be monocytic in nature on the basis that cells
bear THP-1 cells are likely further advanced toward the mature macrophage phenotype than HL-60 cells, although both cell lines respond similarly to treatment with either PMA or prostratin. Both phorbol esters induce rapid attachment of both cell types to plastic surfaces within an hour or 2 after exposure. Initially, the attached cells exhibit a variety of shapes but then appear to mature based on the subsequent formation of a large, thin, rounded cytoplasm indicative of maturing macrophage. A striking difference was noted with regard to the response of THP-1 cells to a single dose of prostratin versus PMA. The ability of prostratin to differentiate THP-1 cells appeared reversible 4 to 5 days after treatment. The molecular basis for this apparent reversibility is unclear; however, our current efforts are directed toward discerning comparative differences in gene expression that occur for both HL-60 and THP-1 cells treated with PMA versus prostratin using gene array technology discussed in detail below. It is also of great interest to identify whether differences exist in the expression of specific genes induced with PMA versus prostratin that may relate to the lack of oncogenic potential for the latter nontumor-promoting phorbol ester. Expanding the knowledge base of the mechanism of action for prostratin is of critical importance if the compound is to be of clinical utility. Studies have determined that prostratin is not a tumor promoter and further may possess a potent antitumorigenic effect based on its ability to inhibit PMA induction of ornithine decarboxylase, edema, and hyperplasia in CD-1 mouse skin.15-17 Our experiments had 2 divergent objectives for treatment of human PBMCs
and the monocytic cell line, THP-1, with prostratin. We first sought to
define assays that could monitor, quantitatively, the effect of
prostratin on readily obtainable primary human cells such as PBMCs. The
visually apparent differentiation and maturation of phagocytes within
the PBMC population, which rapidly occurs after prostratin exposure,
suggested that assessing changes in TNF- Our second objective was to define the biochemical mode of action of
this unique compound. Cytokine gene array analysis was chosen because
changes in the level of gene expression for hundreds of loci could be
measured simultaneously and quantitatively. Many of the genes that were
up-regulated are consistent with phagocyte activation and
differentiation. These include IL-1 The down-regulation of surface CD4 expression was also observed on
CD4+HLA-DR Our final studies sought to determine the potential clinical applicability of the compound. The effects of prostratin on HIV-1 expression and replication were studied to confirm and extend previously reported activities of the compound. First, infection and replication of M-tropic, T-cell line-tropic, and dual-tropic strains were monitored in PBMCs treated with prostratin relative to an untreated control. As has been demonstrated previously, prostratin significantly reduced viral infectivity. This was observed for 3 HIV-1 strains with varying tropism. This effect is consistent with the down-regulation of CD4 receptor expression. The gene array analysis suggests that the block in viral infection may not be restricted to simple down-regulation of this receptor alone. Indeed, both CXCR-4 and CCR-5 coreceptor mRNAs undergo a similar reduction in expression. This may more reasonably account for the general potency of phorbol esters to truncate de novo infection of treated host cells. The gene array analysis also indicated a more than 4-fold increase in
MIP-1 Secondly, we confirmed the ability of prostratin to stimulate latent virus in U1 cells as has been previously reported2 and extended these studies by comparing this property to PMA and PHA. Prostratin was more potent than PHA, although it is difficult to assess whether PHA was equivalently dosed. Nonetheless, prostratin was clearly less potent for inducing viral expression in U1 cells than PMA. This is an additional difference in the pharmokinetic activities of these 2 related phorbol esters, and it is of interest to define whether this is mechanistically related to the lack of oncogenic potential of prostratin. The major chemical difference between prostratin and the various oncogenic phorbol esters, including PMA, is prostratin's lack of ester-bound hydrophobic moities at the C-12 position, thought to serve as membrane insertion points to mimic diacyl glycerol in PKC activation. Szallasi and Blumberg demonstrated that 12-deoxyphorbol 13-phenylacetate, -isobutyrate, or -angelate was inflammatory but either not tumor promoting or weakly tumor promoting; indeed, prostratin appears to be 144-fold less inflammatory than PMA.15 Finally, the ability of prostratin to induce viral expression from primary cells isolated from HIV-1-seropositive patients treated with HAART with consistent viral loads below 50 copies of RNA per milliliter plasma was examined. Each patient was treated with virally suppressive HAART for over a year with completely stable suppression of plasma viral RNA. A somewhat heterogeneous affect of prostratin on viral levels was observed in the coculture supernatants. This heterogeneity was anticipated because p24 antigen release in the supernatant of in vitro cultures requires amplification of the viral infection through de novo infection of HIV-1-seronegative donor cells to accumulate at a detectable level. As a result of prostratin's ability to reduce viral spread, it is not surprising our analyses of primary patient cells exhibit some nonuniformity in the action of the compound because they bear differences in inducible viral levels with other treatment regimens. Despite this limitation, it seems apparent that prostratin, either alone or in conjunction with other activators, stimulates HIV-1 production from HIV-1-infected patients' PBMCs, which was demonstrated in 4 of 6 individuals on suppressive HAART. It was further noted that prostratin was able to down-regulate de novo infection of primary cells either by reducing the efficacy of PHA/IL-2 treatment to propagate an infection, or by abortive viral production in the case of continuous administration in some patient cell cultures. Our studies, as well as previous data, indicate that prostratin might find clinical utility in potential HIV-1 eradication protocols for patients on suppressive HAART. It has been recently demonstrated that latently infected cells, harboring the HIV-1 provirus, persist. Furthermore, low-level cryptic or residual HIV-1 replication is found in patients on suppressive HAART with clinical assays revealing "undetectable" plasma viral RNA levels.3,4,26-30 A series of small clinical trials have attempted to stimulate HIV-1 provirus out of latency from these patients using IL-2 alone31 and IL-2 combined with the monoclonal antibody, OKT3.32 Other approaches have used granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) in an attempt to stimulate HIV-1 out of monocytic reservoirs.33 Our current clinical eradication protocols using IL-2 and OKT3 are not based on repeated administration of proinflammatory compounds and we anticipate clinical use of prostratin would be similar. Prostratin is potentially a more useful agent than OKT3 and IL-2, for instance, because it appears to have stimulatory effects on expression of latent HIV-1 from T lymphocytes (Jerome Zack et al, personal written communication, May 2001), as well as myeloid cells. It has been suggested for stimulation of HIV-1 out of latency, tissue-bound and blood-borne monocyte/macrophage must be approached, because they may be a significant reservoir for HIV-1 within patients on suppressive HAART.34 M-CSF has been hypothesized as a potential phagocyte stimulatory agent in this regard.35 Nevertheless, prostratin would likely stimulate both potential compartments for HIV-1 in vivo, and unlike other phorbol esters, is nontumorgenic. Preliminary pharmacokinetic studies are encouraging; 5 of 5 mice survived, with no obvious ill effects at a 100 µmol/kg intragastric dose of prostratin with plasma concentrations reaching up to 1.42 µmol/L. Mice also survived intravenous administration, with one reaching a peak plasma concentration of 3.62 µmol/L. These studies suggest that the use of prostratin in stimulatory therapeutic protocols for HIV-1-infected individuals on suppressive HAART, both with and without antiretroviral drug intensification,36 holds considerable promise for future clinical trials.
The authors wish to thank Carol Coates, RN, and Colleen Discenzo for obtaining blood samples in the HIV clinics, Michelle Vanella for figure formats, and Rita M. Victor and Brenda O. Gordon for excellent secretarial assistance.
Submitted February 12, 2001; accepted July 6, 2001.
Supported in part by US Public Health Service grant R01AI46289 (R.J.P.).
The publication costs of this article were defrayed in part by page charge payment. Therefore, and solely to indicate this fact, this article is hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. section 1734.
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Introduction
, mRNAs
were also down-regulated. Down-regulation of surface protein CD4
display was confirmed on purified CD4+ T cells, and
CD4+HLA-DR+ resting T cells, which occurred in
a dose-dependent manner after exposure to prostratin.
T cells, which correlates with
reduced CD4 mRNA levels observed by the gene array analysis. T cells
were chosen in this study for ease of cell manipulation and analysis
rather than THP-1 cells because prostratin treatment induces adherence
of these cells to vessel surfaces. Furthermore, the response of
CD4+ T lymphocytes extends and corroborates the previous
receptor down-regulation to a primary cell type.
, IL-7, IL-2 receptor 
B (NF-
), which activates
NF-