Getting the “kill” into “shock and kill”: strategies to eliminate latent HIV

Y Kim, JL Anderson, SR Lewin - Cell host & microbe, 2018 - cell.com
Despite the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART), there is currently no HIV cure and
treatment is life long. HIV persists during ART due to long-lived and proliferating latently …

The biology of the HIV-1 latent reservoir and implications for cure strategies

LB Cohn, N Chomont, SG Deeks - Cell host & microbe, 2020 - cell.com
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) inhibits HIV replication but is not curative. During ART, the
integrated HIV genome persists indefinitely within CD4+ T cells and perhaps other cells …

The latent reservoir of inducible, infectious HIV-1 does not decrease despite decades of antiretroviral therapy

NF McMyn, J Varriale, EJ Fray… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
HIV-1 persists in a latent reservoir in resting CD4+ T cells despite antiretroviral therapy
(ART). The reservoir decays slowly over the first 7 years of ART (t 1/2= 44 months). However …

Combination anti-HIV antibodies provide sustained virological suppression

MC Sneller, J Blazkova, JS Justement, V Shi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Antiretroviral therapy is highly effective in suppressing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
However, eradication of the virus in individuals with HIV has not been possible to date …

A quantitative approach for measuring the reservoir of latent HIV-1 proviruses

KM Bruner, Z Wang, FR Simonetti, AM Bender… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
A stable latent reservoir for HIV-1 in resting CD4+ T cells is the principal barrier to a cure,–.
Curative strategies that target the reservoir are being tested, and require accurate, scalable …

Clonally expanded HIV-1 proviruses with 5′-leader defects can give rise to nonsuppressible residual viremia

JA White, F Wu, S Yasin… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Background Antiretroviral therapy (ART) halts HIV-1 replication, decreasing viremia to below
the detection limit of clinical assays. However, some individuals experience persistent …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell multiomics reveals persistence of HIV-1 in expanded cytotoxic T cell clones

JA Collora, R Liu, D Pinto-Santini, N Ravindra… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Understanding the drivers and markers of clonally expanding HIV-1-infected CD4+ T cells is
essential for HIV-1 eradication. We used single-cell ECCITE-seq, which captures surface …

Targeting the latent reservoir for HIV-1

S Sengupta, RF Siliciano - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
Antiretroviral therapy can effectively block HIV-1 replication and prevent or reverse
immunodeficiency in HIV-1-infected individuals. However, viral replication resumes within …

Antibody and TLR7 agonist delay viral rebound in SHIV-infected monkeys

EN Borducchi, J Liu, JP Nkolola, AM Cadena, WH Yu… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The latent viral reservoir is the critical barrier for the development of a cure for HIV-1
infection. Previous studies have shown direct antiviral activity of potent HIV-1 Env-specific …

Antigen-driven clonal selection shapes the persistence of HIV-1–infected CD4+ T cells in vivo

FR Simonetti, H Zhang, GP Soroosh… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Clonal expansion of infected CD4+ T cells is a major mechanism of HIV-1 persistence and a
barrier to achieving a cure. Potential causes are homeostatic proliferation, effects of HIV-1 …