CD8型
人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)
Cd4 t细胞
免疫系统
病毒学
免疫学
作者
Kyungyoon J. Kwon,Andrew E. Timmons,Srona Sengupta,Francesco R. Simonetti,Hao Zhang,Rebecca Hoh,Steven G. Deeks,Janet D. Siliciano,Robert F. Siliciano
出处
期刊:Science Translational Medicine
[American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)]
日期:2020-01-29
卷期号:12 (528)
被引量:37
标识
DOI:10.1126/scitranslmed.aax6795
摘要
The latent reservoir of HIV-1 in resting CD4+ T cells is a major barrier to cure. It is unclear whether the latent reservoir resides principally in particular subsets of CD4+ T cells, a finding that would have implications for understanding its stability and developing curative therapies. Recent work has shown that proliferation of HIV-1-infected CD4+ T cells is a major factor in the generation and persistence of the latent reservoir and that latently infected T cells that have clonally expanded in vivo can proliferate in vitro without producing virions. In certain CD4+ memory T cell subsets, the provirus may be in a deeper state of latency, allowing the cell to proliferate without producing viral proteins, thus permitting escape from immune clearance. To evaluate this possibility, we used a multiple stimulation viral outgrowth assay to culture resting naive, central memory (TCM), transitional memory (TTM), and effector memory (TEM) CD4+ T cells from 10 HIV-1-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapy. On average, only 1.7% of intact proviruses across all T cell subsets were induced to transcribe viral genes and release replication-competent virus after stimulation of the cells. We found no consistent enrichment of intact or inducible proviruses in any T cell subset. Furthermore, we observed notable plasticity among the canonical memory T cell subsets after activation in vitro and saw substantial person-to-person variability in the inducibility of infectious virus release. This finding complicates the vision for a targeted approach for HIV-1 cure based on T cell memory subsets.
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