Figure 5.

Ability of plant lectins to inhibit transfer of HIV-1_Ba-L free particles by dendritic cells to autologous T lymphocytes. Dendritic cells (MDDC) were incubated with non-toxic concentrations of each plant lectin and 0.5 ng p24 antigen of virus were added for 3 h. The HIV-production by T cells was evaluated on the 6^th day of co-culture by measurement of p24 antigen by ELISA. Means of three independent experiments are presented; error bars represent standard deviations. *< 0.05, **< 0.01.