ADCP was measured as previously described (65 (link)). Briefly, gp120 CM235 (NIH HIV Reagent Program, Division of AIDS, NIAID, NIH: HIV-1 CM235 gp120 Recombinant Protein, ARP-12816, contributed by NIAID, DAIDS) was biotinylated at a biotin-to-protein ratio of 50 according to the manufacturer’s instructions (Thermo Fisher Scientific) and incubated with yellow-green streptavidin fluorescent beads (Molecular Probes) for 2 hours at 37°C. Ten microliters of a 100-fold dilution of beads-protein was incubated for 2 hours at 37°C with 100 μL of 200-fold diluted plasma samples before addition of Tamm-Horsfall protein 1 (THP-1) cells (20,000/well; MilliporeSigma). After an 18-hour incubation at 37oC, the cells were fixed with 4% formaldehyde solution (Tousimis), and fluorescence was evaluated on an LSR II (BD Biosciences). The phagocytic score was calculated by multiplying the percentage of bead-positive cells by the geo MFI of the bead-positive cells and dividing by 104.
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