“…In addition, SIVsmm from sooty mangabeys can also use a coreceptor other than CCR5 to mediate infection in vivo: genetic absence of CCR5 is relatively common in sooty mangabeys, but CCR5-negative animals are still infected with SIVsmm, though their virus loads are, on average, one-half log less than what is typically seen in CCR5 ϩ animals (49). The coreceptor used by SIVsmm to replicate in sooty mangabeys has not yet been identified, though in vitro and genetic studies appear to rule (3,4,10,23,47,66), with CCR3, GPR15, APJ, and FPRL-1 being among those most frequently used (11,26,43,47,57). However, these studies have typically employed cell lines that likely overexpress these coreceptors, so it is difficult to assess whether utilization of these coreceptors can lead to infection of primary human cell types.…”