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 …

HIV latency

RF Siliciano, WC Greene - Cold Spring …, 2011‏ - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
HIV-1 can establish a state of latent infection at the level of individual T cells. Latently
infected cells are rare in vivo and appear to arise when activated CD4+ T cells, the major …

Proliferation of latently infected CD4+ T cells carrying replication-competent HIV-1: Potential role in latent reservoir dynamics

NN Hosmane, KJ Kwon, KM Bruner… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017‏ - rupress.org
A latent reservoir for HIV-1 in resting CD4+ T lymphocytes precludes cure. Mechanisms
underlying reservoir stability are unclear. Recent studies suggest an unexpected degree of …

[HTML][HTML] Replication-competent noninduced proviruses in the latent reservoir increase barrier to HIV-1 cure

YC Ho, L Shan, NN Hosmane, J Wang, SB Laskey… - Cell, 2013‏ - cell.com
Antiretroviral therapy fails to cure HIV-1 infection because latent proviruses persist in resting
CD4+ T cells. T cell activation reverses latency, but< 1% of proviruses are induced to …

HIV latency in isolated patient CD4+ T cells may be due to blocks in HIV transcriptional elongation, completion, and splicing

SA Yukl, P Kaiser, P Kim, S Telwatte, SK Joshi… - Science translational …, 2018‏ - science.org
Latently infected CD4+ T cells are the main barrier to complete clearance of HIV infection,
but it is unclear what mechanisms govern latent HIV infection in vivo. To address this …

Broad CTL response is required to clear latent HIV-1 due to dominance of escape mutations

K Deng, M Pertea, A Rongvaux, L Wang, CM Durand… - Nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
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 …

Ex vivo analysis identifies effective HIV-1 latency–reversing drug combinations

GM Laird, CK Bullen, DIS Rosenbloom, AR Martin… - The Journal of clinical …, 2015‏ - jci.org
Reversal of HIV-1 latency by small molecules is a potential cure strategy. This approach will
likely require effective drug combinations to achieve high levels of latency reversal. Using …

Expanded cellular clones carrying replication-competent HIV-1 persist, wax, and wane

Z Wang, EE Gurule, TP Brennan, JM Gerold… - Proceedings of the …, 2018‏ - pnas.org
The latent reservoir for HIV-1 in resting CD4+ T cells is a major barrier to cure. Several lines
of evidence suggest that the latent reservoir is maintained through cellular proliferation …

New ex vivo approaches distinguish effective and ineffective single agents for reversing HIV-1 latency in vivo

CK Bullen, GM Laird, CM Durand, JD Siliciano… - Nature medicine, 2014‏ - nature.com
HIV-1 persists in a latent reservoir despite antiretroviral therapy (ART),,,,. This reservoir is the
major barrier to HIV-1 eradication,. Current approaches to purging the latent reservoir …

Comparative analysis of measures of viral reservoirs in HIV-1 eradication studies

S Eriksson, EH Graf, V Dahl, MC Strain, SA Yukl… - PLoS …, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
HIV-1 reservoirs preclude virus eradication in patients receiving highly active antiretroviral
therapy (HAART). The best characterized reservoir is a small, difficult-to-quantify pool of …