Publication Date:
2015-01-07
Description:
Despite antiretroviral therapy (ART), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 persists in a stable latent reservoir, primarily in resting memory CD4(+) T cells. This reservoir presents a major barrier to the cure of HIV-1 infection. To purge the reservoir, pharmacological reactivation of latent HIV-1 has been proposed and tested both in vitro and in vivo. A key remaining question is whether virus-specific immune mechanisms, including cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), can clear infected cells in ART-treated patients after latency is reversed. Here we show that there is a striking all or none pattern for CTL escape mutations in HIV-1 Gag epitopes. Unless ART is started early, the vast majority (〉98%) of latent viruses carry CTL escape mutations that render infected cells insensitive to CTLs directed at common epitopes. To solve this problem, we identified CTLs that could recognize epitopes from latent HIV-1 that were unmutated in every chronically infected patient tested. Upon stimulation, these CTLs eliminated target cells infected with autologous virus derived from the latent reservoir, both in vitro and in patient-derived humanized mice. The predominance of CTL-resistant viruses in the latent reservoir poses a major challenge to viral eradication. Our results demonstrate that chronically infected patients retain a broad-spectrum viral-specific CTL response and that appropriate boosting of this response may be required for the elimination of the latent reservoir.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4406054/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4406054/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Deng, Kai -- Pertea, Mihaela -- Rongvaux, Anthony -- Wang, Leyao -- Durand, Christine M -- Ghiaur, Gabriel -- Lai, Jun -- McHugh, Holly L -- Hao, Haiping -- Zhang, Hao -- Margolick, Joseph B -- Gurer, Cagan -- Murphy, Andrew J -- Valenzuela, David M -- Yancopoulos, George D -- Deeks, Steven G -- Strowig, Till -- Kumar, Priti -- Siliciano, Janet D -- Salzberg, Steven L -- Flavell, Richard A -- Shan, Liang -- Siliciano, Robert F -- 1U19AI096109/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI096113/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- K08 HL127269/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- P30 AI094189/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P30AI094189/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI043222/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI051178/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32 AI007019/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32 AI07019/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32 HL007525/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- U19 AI096109/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- U19 AI096113/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Jan 15;517(7534):381-5. doi: 10.1038/nature14053. Epub 2015 Jan 7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. ; 1] Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [2] Center for Computational Biology, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. ; Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA. ; Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA. ; Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. ; Deep Sequencing and Microarray Core, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. ; Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. ; Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, New York 10591, USA. ; Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94110, USA. ; Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA. ; 1] Center for Computational Biology, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [2] Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. ; 1] Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA. ; 1] Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25561180" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acute Disease/therapy
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Animals
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Anti-HIV Agents/administration & dosage/pharmacology/therapeutic use
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CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology/immunology/virology
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Chronic Disease/drug therapy
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Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/genetics/immunology
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Female
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Genes, Dominant/*genetics
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Genes, Viral/*genetics
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HIV Infections/blood/drug therapy/immunology/virology
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HIV-1/drug effects/*genetics/growth & development/*immunology
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Humans
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Male
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Mice
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Mutation/*genetics
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RNA, Viral/blood
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T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/*immunology
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Viral Load/drug effects
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Virus Latency/genetics/*immunology
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Virus Replication/immunology
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gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/genetics/immunology
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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