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Samer S, Thomas Y, Araínga M, Carter C, Shirreff LM, Arif MS, Avita JM, Frank I, McRaven MD, Thuruthiyil CT, Heybeli VB, Anderson MR, Owen B, Gaisin A, Bose D, Simons LM, Hultquist JF, Arthos J, Cicala C, Sereti I, Santangelo PJ, Lorenzo-Redondo R, Hope TJ, Villinger FJ, Martinelli E. Blockade of TGF-β signaling reactivates HIV-1/SIV reservoirs and immune responses in vivo. JCI Insight 2022; 7:e162290. [PMID: 36125890 PMCID: PMC9675457 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.162290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
TGF-β plays a critical role in maintaining immune cells in a resting state by inhibiting cell activation and proliferation. Resting HIV-1 target cells represent the main cellular reservoir after long-term antiretroviral therapy (ART). We hypothesized that releasing cells from TGF-β-driven signaling would promote latency reversal. To test our hypothesis, we compared HIV-1 latency models with and without TGF-β and a TGF-β type 1 receptor inhibitor, galunisertib. We tested the effect of galunisertib in SIV-infected, ART-treated macaques by monitoring SIV-env expression via PET/CT using the 64Cu-DOTA-F(ab')2 p7D3 probe, along with plasma and tissue viral loads (VLs). Exogenous TGF-β reduced HIV-1 reactivation in U1 and ACH-2 models. Galunisertib increased HIV-1 latency reversal ex vivo and in PBMCs from HIV-1-infected, ART-treated, aviremic donors. In vivo, oral galunisertib promoted increased total standardized uptake values in PET/CT images in gut and lymph nodes of 5 out of 7 aviremic, long-term ART-treated, SIV-infected macaques. This increase correlated with an increase in SIV RNA in the gut. Two of the 7 animals also exhibited increases in plasma VLs. Higher anti-SIV T cell responses and antibody titers were detected after galunisertib treatment. In summary, our data suggest that blocking TGF-β signaling simultaneously increases retroviral reactivation events and enhances anti-SIV immune responses.
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- Sadia Samer
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- New Iberia Research Center (NIRC), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, New Iberia, Louisiana, USA
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- New Iberia Research Center (NIRC), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, New Iberia, Louisiana, USA
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- New Iberia Research Center (NIRC), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, New Iberia, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Integrated Molecular Structure Education and Research (IMSERC), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Integrated Molecular Structure Education and Research (IMSERC), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- New Iberia Research Center (NIRC), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, New Iberia, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution, Havey Institute for Global Health Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution, Havey Institute for Global Health Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- WH Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution, Havey Institute for Global Health Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- New Iberia Research Center (NIRC), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, New Iberia, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Darcis G, Kootstra NA, Hooibrink B, van Montfort T, Maurer I, Groen K, Jurriaans S, Bakker M, van Lint C, Berkhout B, Pasternak AO. CD32 +CD4 + T Cells Are Highly Enriched for HIV DNA and Can Support Transcriptional Latency. Cell Rep 2021; 30:2284-2296.e3. [PMID: 32075737 PMCID: PMC7050565 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.01.071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Revised: 11/25/2019] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The HIV latent reservoir forms the major hurdle to an HIV cure. The discovery of CD32 as marker of this reservoir has aroused much interest, but subsequent reports have challenged this finding. Here, we observe a positive correlation between the percentages of CD32+ cells among CD4+ T cells of aviremic cART-treated, HIV-infected individuals and their HIV DNA loads in peripheral blood. Moreover, optimization of the CD32+CD4+ T cell purification protocol reveals prominent enrichment for HIV DNA (mean, 292-fold) in these cells. However, no enrichment for HIV RNA is observed in CD32+CD4+ cells, yielding significantly reduced HIV RNA/DNA ratios. Furthermore, HIV proviruses in CD32+CD4+ cells can be reactivated ex vivo to produce virus, strongly suggesting that these cells support HIV transcriptional latency. Our results underscore the importance of isolating pure, bona fide CD32+CD4+ T cells for future studies and indicate that CD32 remains a promising candidate marker of the HIV reservoir.
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- Gilles Darcis
- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Infectious Diseases Department, Liège University Hospital, Liège, Belgium.
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- Laboratory of Viral Immune Pathogenesis, Department of Experimental Immunology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Viral Immune Pathogenesis, Department of Experimental Immunology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Service of Molecular Virology, Département de Biologie Moléculaire (DBM), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Gosselies, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Polymorphisms in the DC-SIGN gene and their association with the severity of hand, foot, and mouth disease caused by enterovirus 71. Arch Virol 2021; 166:1133-1140. [PMID: 33590343 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-021-04991-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Severe hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) caused by enterovirus 71 (EV71) infection is associated with high mortality and disability. DC-SIGN, a receptor for EV71, is widely distributed in dendritic cells and may influence the severity of HFMD caused by EV71 infection. This observational study attempts to explore whether single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DC-SIGN are related to the severity of EV71-associated HFMD. Based on linkage disequilibrium and functional predictions, two DC-SIGN SNPs were selected and tested to explore their potential association with the severity of HFMD caused by EV71 infection. Two hundred sixteen Han Chinese children with HFMD caused by EV71 were enrolled to obtain clinical data, including the severity of HFMD, serum DC-SIGN levels, and DC-SIGN SNPs. We found a significant association between the rs7248637 polymorphism (A vs. G: OR = 0.644, 95% CI = 0.515-0.806) and the severity of HFMD caused by EV71 infection, as well as the rs4804800 polymorphism (A vs. G: OR = 1.539, 95% CI =1.229-1.928). These two DC-SIGN SNPs may have an effect on the severity of HFMD caused by EV71 infection.
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Okutomi T, Minakawa S, Hirota R, Katagiri K, Morikawa Y. HIV Reactivation in Latently Infected Cells With Virological Synapse-Like Cell Contact. Viruses 2020; 12:v12040417. [PMID: 32276457 PMCID: PMC7232209 DOI: 10.3390/v12040417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2020] [Revised: 04/05/2020] [Accepted: 04/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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HIV reactivation from latency is induced by cytokines but also by cell contact with other cells. To better understand this, J1.1 cells, a latent HIV-1-infected Jurkat derivative, were cocultured with its parental Jurkat. J1.1 cells became p17MA-positive and produced a high level of HIV p24CA antigen, only when they were cocultured with stimulated Jurkat with cell-to-cell contact. In contrast, very little p24CA was produced when they were cocultured without cell contact. Similar results were obtained when latent ACH-2 and its parental A3.01 cells were cocultured. Confocal microscopy revealed that not only HIV-1 p17MA and gp120Env but also LFA-1, CD81, CD59, and TCR CD3 accumulated at the cell contact site, suggesting formation of the virological synapse-like structure. LFA-1–ICAM-1 interaction was involved in the cell-to-cell contact. When J1.1 was cocultured with TCR-deficient Jurkat, the p17MA-positive rate was significantly lower, although the cell-to-cell contact was not impaired. Quantitative proteomics identified 54 membrane molecules, one of which was MHC class I, that accumulated at the cell contact site. Reactivation from latency was also influenced by the presence of stromal cells. Our study indicated that latent HIV-1 in J1.1/ACH-2 cells was efficiently reactivated by cell-to-cell contact with stimulated parental cells, accompanying the virological synapse-like structure.
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- Toshiki Okutomi
- Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, Shirokane 5-9-1, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan; (T.O.); (S.M.); (R.H.)
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- Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, Shirokane 5-9-1, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan; (T.O.); (S.M.); (R.H.)
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- Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, Shirokane 5-9-1, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan; (T.O.); (S.M.); (R.H.)
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- Department of Biosciences, School of Science, Kitasato University, Kitasato 1-15-1, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-0373, Japan;
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- Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, Shirokane 5-9-1, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan; (T.O.); (S.M.); (R.H.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +81-3-5791-6129
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Role of Dendritic Cells in Exposing Latent HIV-1 for the Kill. Viruses 2019; 12:v12010037. [PMID: 31905690 PMCID: PMC7019604 DOI: 10.3390/v12010037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2019] [Revised: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 12/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The development of effective yet nontoxic strategies to target the latent human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) reservoir in antiretroviral therapy (ART)-suppressed individuals poses a critical barrier to a functional cure. The ‘kick and kill’ approach to HIV eradication entails proviral reactivation during ART, coupled with generation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) or other immune effectors equipped to eliminate exposed infected cells. Pharmacological latency reversal agents (LRAs) that have produced modest reductions in the latent reservoir ex vivo have not impacted levels of proviral DNA in HIV-infected individuals. An optimal cure strategy incorporates methods that facilitate sufficient antigen exposure on reactivated cells following the induction of proviral gene expression, as well as the elimination of infected targets by either polyfunctional HIV-specific CTLs or other immune-based strategies. Although conventional dendritic cells (DCs) have been used extensively for the purpose of inducing antigen-specific CTL responses in HIV-1 clinical trials, their immunotherapeutic potential as cellular LRAs has been largely ignored. In this review, we discuss the challenges associated with current HIV-1 eradication strategies, as well as the unharnessed potential of ex vivo-programmed DCs for both the ‘kick and kill’ of latent HIV-1.
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: Given the challenges of life-long adherence to suppressive HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) and possibilities of comorbidities, such as HIV association neurocognitive disorder, HIV remission and eradication are desirable goals for people living with HIV. In some individuals, there is evidence that HIV persists and replicates in the CNS, impacting the success of HIV remission interventions. This article addresses the role of HIV CNS latency on HIV eradication, examines the effects of early ART, latency-modifying agents, antibody-based and T-cell enhancing therapies on the CNS as well as ART interruption in remission studies. We propose the integration of CNS monitoring into such studies in order to clarify the short-term and long-term neurological safety of experimental agents and treatment interruption, and to better characterize their effects on HIV CNS persistence.
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Darcis G, Berkhout B, Pasternak AO. The Quest for Cellular Markers of HIV Reservoirs: Any Color You Like. Front Immunol 2019; 10:2251. [PMID: 31616425 PMCID: PMC6763966 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) suppresses human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replication and improves immune function, but is unable to eradicate the virus. Therefore, development of an HIV cure has become one of the main priorities of the HIV research field. The main obstacle for an HIV cure is the formation of latent viral reservoirs, where the virus is able to “hide” despite decades of therapy, just to reignite active replication once therapy is stopped. Revealing HIV hiding places is thus central to HIV cure research, but the absence of markers of these reservoir cells greatly complicates the search for a cure. Identification of one or several marker(s) of latently infected cells would represent a significant step forward toward a better description of the cell types involved and improved understanding of HIV latency. Moreover, it could provide a “handle” for selective therapeutic targeting of the reservoirs. A number of cellular markers of HIV reservoir have recently been proposed, including immune checkpoint molecules, CD2, and CD30. CD32a is perhaps the most promising of HIV reservoir markers as it is reported to be associated with a very prominent enrichment in HIV DNA, although this finding has been challenged. In this review, we provide an update on the current knowledge about HIV reservoir markers. We specifically highlight studies that characterized markers of persistently infected cells in the lymphoid tissues.
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- Gilles Darcis
- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.,Infectious Diseases Department, Liège University Hospital, Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Kristoff J, Palma ML, Garcia-Bates TM, Shen C, Sluis-Cremer N, Gupta P, Rinaldo CR, Mailliard RB. Type 1-programmed dendritic cells drive antigen-specific latency reversal and immune elimination of persistent HIV-1. EBioMedicine 2019; 43:295-306. [PMID: 30952614 PMCID: PMC6557749 DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.03.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2019] [Revised: 03/25/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Despite the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART), latent HIV-1 continues to persist in a long-lived population of resting memory CD4+ T cells within those who are infected. Finding a safe and effective means to induce latency reversal (LR) during ART to specifically expose this latent HIV-1 cellular reservoir for immune elimination has been a major barrier to a functional cure. Methods In this study, we test the use of antigen-presenting type 1-polarized, monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MDC1) generated from chronic HIV-1-infected individuals on ART as a means to induce HIV-1 latency reversal in autologous CD4+ T cells harboring replication-competent provirus. We use the same MDC1 for ex-vivo generation of autologous HIV-1 antigen-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T cells (CTL) and test their effector responses against the MDC1-exposed HIV-1- infected CD4+ T cell targets. Findings MDC1 presentation of either HIV-1 or cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigens to CD4+ T cells facilitated HIV-1 LR. This antigen-driven MDC1-mediated LR was sharply diminished with blockade of the CD40L/CD40 ‘helper’ signaling pathway. Importantly, these antigen-presenting MDC1 also activated the expansion of CTL capable of killing the exposed HIV-1-infected targets. Interpretation Inclusion of virus-associated MHC class II ‘helper’ antigens in MDC1-based HIV-1 immunotherapies could serve both as a targeted means to safely unmask antigen-specific CD4+ T cells harboring HIV-1, and to support CTL responses that can effectively target the MDC1-exposed HIV-1 cellular reservoir as a functional cure strategy. Fund This study was supported by the NIH-NAID grants R21-AI131763, U01-AI35041, UM1-AI126603, and T32-AI065380.
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- Jan Kristoff
- Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America; Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States of America.
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van Montfort T, van der Sluis R, Darcis G, Beaty D, Groen K, Pasternak AO, Pollakis G, Vink M, Westerhout EM, Hamdi M, Bakker M, van der Putten B, Jurriaans S, Prins JH, Jeeninga R, Thomas AAM, Speijer D, Berkhout B. Dendritic cells potently purge latent HIV-1 beyond TCR-stimulation, activating the PI3K-Akt-mTOR pathway. EBioMedicine 2019; 42:97-108. [PMID: 30824386 PMCID: PMC6491380 DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2018] [Revised: 02/01/2019] [Accepted: 02/06/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Background The latent HIV-1 reservoir in treated patients primarily consists of resting memory CD4+ T cells. Stimulating the T-cell receptor (TCR), which facilitates transition of resting into effector T cells, is the most effective strategy to purge these latently infected cells. Here we supply evidence that TCR-stimulated effector T cells still frequently harbor latent HIV-1. Methods Primary HIV-1 infected cells were used in a latency assay with or without dendritic cells (DCs) and reversion of HIV-1 latency was determined, in the presence or absence of specific pathway inhibitors. Findings Renewed TCR-stimulation or subsequent activation with latency reversing agents (LRAs) did not overcome latency. However, interaction of infected effector cells with DCs triggered further activation of latent HIV-1. When compared to TCR-stimulation only, CD4+ T cells from aviremic patients receiving TCR + DC-stimulation reversed latency more frequently. Such a “one-two punch” strategy seems ideal for purging the reservoir. We determined that DC contact activates the PI3K-Akt-mTOR pathway in CD4+ T cells. Interpretation This insight could facilitate the development of a novel class of potent LRAs that purge latent HIV beyond levels reached by T-cell activation.
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- Thijs van Montfort
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands; Department of Infectious Diseases, Liege University Hospital, Liege, Belgium
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology (CIMI), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, 8 West Derby Street, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Oncogenomics, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Oncogenomics, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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- Department Developmental Biology, Faculty Beta-Science, Utrecht, Padualaan 8, 3584, CH, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, the Netherlands
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da Silva LT, Santillo BT, de Almeida A, Duarte AJDS, Oshiro TM. Using Dendritic Cell-Based Immunotherapy to Treat HIV: How Can This Strategy be Improved? Front Immunol 2018; 9:2993. [PMID: 30619346 PMCID: PMC6305438 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2018] [Accepted: 12/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Harnessing dendritic cells (DC) to treat HIV infection is considered a key strategy to improve anti-HIV treatment and promote the discovery of functional or sterilizing cures. Although this strategy represents a promising approach, the results of currently published trials suggest that opportunities to optimize its performance still exist. In addition to the genetic and clinical characteristics of patients, the efficacy of DC-based immunotherapy depends on the quality of the vaccine product, which is composed of precursor-derived DC and an antigen for pulsing. Here, we focus on some factors that can interfere with vaccine production and should thus be considered to improve DC-based immunotherapy for HIV infection.
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- Laís Teodoro da Silva
- Laboratorio de Investigacao em Dermatologia e Imunodeficiencias, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Investigacao em Dermatologia e Imunodeficiencias, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Investigacao em Dermatologia e Imunodeficiencias, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Investigacao em Dermatologia e Imunodeficiencias, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Investigacao em Dermatologia e Imunodeficiencias, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Kumar NA, van der Sluis RM, Mota T, Pascoe R, Evans VA, Lewin SR, Cameron PU. Myeloid Dendritic Cells Induce HIV Latency in Proliferating CD4 + T Cells. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2018; 201:1468-1477. [PMID: 30030324 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1701233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2017] [Accepted: 06/27/2018] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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HIV latency occurs predominantly in long-lived resting CD4+ T cells; however, latent infection also occurs in T cell subsets, including proliferating CD4+ T cells. We compared the establishment and maintenance of latent infection in nonproliferating and proliferating human CD4+ T cells cocultured with syngeneic myeloid dendritic cells (mDC). Resting CD4+ T cells were labeled with the proliferation dye eFluor 670 and cultured alone or with mDC, plasmacytoid dendritic cells, or monocytes in the presence of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB). Cells were cultured for 24 h and infected with CCR5-tropic enhanced GFP (EGFP) reporter HIV. Five days postinfection, nonproductively infected EGFP- CD4+ T cells that were either nonproliferating (eFluor 670hi) or proliferating (eFluor 670lo) were sorted and cultured for an additional 7 d (day 12) with IL-7 and antiretrovirals. At day 5 postinfection, sorted, nonproductively infected T cells were stimulated with anti-CD3/CD28, and induced expression of EGFP was measured to determine the frequency of latent infection. Integrated HIV in these cells was confirmed using quantitative PCR. By these criteria, latent infection was detected at day 5 and 12 in proliferating T cells cocultured with mDC and monocytes but not plasmacytoid dendritic cells, where CD4+ T cells at day 12 were poor. At day 5 postinfection, nonproliferating T cells expressing SEB-specific TCR Vβ-17 were enriched in latent infection compared with non-SEB-specific TCR Vβ-8.1. Together, these data show that both nonproliferating and proliferating CD4+ T cells can harbor latent infection during SEB-stimulated T cell proliferation and that the establishment of HIV latency in nonproliferating T cells is linked to expression of specific TCR that respond to SEB.
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- Nitasha A Kumar
- The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.,Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia; and.,Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia
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- The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia; .,Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia; and.,Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia
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The Pathway To Establishing HIV Latency Is Critical to How Latency Is Maintained and Reversed. J Virol 2018; 92:JVI.02225-17. [PMID: 29643247 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02225-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2018] [Accepted: 04/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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HIV infection requires lifelong antiretroviral therapy because of the persistence of latently infected CD4+ T cells. The induction of virus expression from latently infected cells occurs following T cell receptor (TCR) activation, but not all latently infected cells respond to TCR stimulation. We compared two models of latently infected cells using an enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) reporter virus to infect CCL19-treated resting CD4+ (rCD4+) T cells (preactivation latency) or activated CD4+ T cells that returned to a resting state (postactivation latency). We isolated latently infected cells by sorting for EGFP-negative (EGFP-) cells after infection. These cells were cultured with antivirals and stimulated with anti-CD3/anti-CD28, mitogens, and latency-reversing agents (LRAs) and cocultured with monocytes and anti-CD3. Spontaneous EGFP expression was more frequent in postactivation than in preactivation latency. Stimulation of latently infected cells with monocytes/anti-CD3 resulted in an increase in EGFP expression compared to that for unstimulated controls using the preactivation latency model but led to a reduction in EGFP expression in the postactivation latency model. The reduced EGFP expression was not associated with reductions in the levels of viral DNA or T cell proliferation but depended on direct contact between monocytes and T cells. Monocytes added to the postactivation latency model during the establishment of latency reduced spontaneous virus expression, suggesting that monocyte-T cell interactions at an early time point postinfection can maintain HIV latency. This direct comparison of pre- and postactivation latency suggests that effective strategies needed to reverse latency will depend on how latency is established.IMPORTANCE One strategy being evaluated to eliminate latently infected cells that persist in HIV-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is to activate HIV expression or production with the goal of inducing virus-mediated cytolysis or immune-mediated clearance of infected cells. The gold standard for the activation of latent virus is T cell receptor stimulation with anti-CD3/anti-CD28. However, this stimulus activates only a small proportion of latently infected cells. We show clear differences in the responses of latently infected cells to activating stimuli based on how latent infection is established, an observation that may potentially explain the persistence of noninduced intact proviruses in HIV-infected individuals on ART.
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He B, Yan F, Wu C. Overexpressed miR-195 attenuated immune escape of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma by targeting PD-L1. Biomed Pharmacother 2017; 98:95-101. [PMID: 29247952 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2017.11.146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Revised: 11/28/2017] [Accepted: 11/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) seriously threatens patients life with the morbidity increases at a high rate. Immune response disorder is the potential factor that induces DLBCL, while the potential mechanism still not fully understand. METHODS Real-time PCR and western blot were performed to determine genes expression. Flow cytometry was employed to detect the expression of PD-1 and the ratio of PD-1+T cells. Enzyme-linked immune sorbent assay (ELISA) was used to determine the cytokines secretion. RESULTS MiR-195 was down-regulated, while PD-L1 was up-regulated in DLBCL tissues, and the rate of PD-1+T cells was increased in T cells of peripheral blood in DLBCL. Overexpressed miR-195 suppressed the expression of PD-L1. Moreover, miR-195 overexpression significantly promoted the secretion of IFN-γ and TNF-α, but decreased IL-10 and PD-1+T cells rate in the co-culture model of T cells and OCI-Ly-10 cells. MiR-195 targets PD-L1 to regulate the expression of IFN-γ, TNF-α, IL-10 and the rate of PD-1+T cells. CONCLUSION MiR-195 regulated immune response of DLBCL through targeting PD-L1.
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- Bai He
- Department of Hematology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, The First People'S Hospital of Changzhou, Changzhou, 213003, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Hematology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, The First People'S Hospital of Changzhou, Changzhou, 213003, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Oncology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, The First People'S Hospital of Changzhou, No. 185 Juqian Street, Changzhou, 213003, Jiangsu, China.
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van Montfort T, Speijer D, Berkhout B. Dendritic cells as natural latency reversing agent: A wake-up call for HIV-1. Virulence 2017; 8:1494-1497. [PMID: 28895782 DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2017.1371898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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- T van Montfort
- a Laboratory of Experimental Virology Department of Medical Microbiology , Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
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- b Department of Medical Biochemistry, Academic Medical Centre , University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
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- a Laboratory of Experimental Virology Department of Medical Microbiology , Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
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Pankrac J, Klein K, Mann JFS. Eradication of HIV-1 latent reservoirs through therapeutic vaccination. AIDS Res Ther 2017; 14:45. [PMID: 28893280 PMCID: PMC5594457 DOI: 10.1186/s12981-017-0177-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2017] [Accepted: 08/11/2017] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Despite the significant success of combination anti-retroviral therapy to reduce HIV viremia and save lives, HIV-1 infection remains a lifelong infection that must be appropriately managed. Advances in the understanding of the HIV infection process and insights from vaccine development in other biomedical fields such as cancer, imaging, and genetic engineering have fueled rapid advancements in HIV cure research. In the last few years, several studies have focused on the development of “Kick and Kill” therapies to reverse HIV latency and kick start viral translational activity. This has been done with the aim that concomitant anti-retroviral treatment and the elicited immune responses will prevent de novo infections while eradicating productively infected cells. In this review, we describe our perspective on HIV cure and the new approaches we are undertaking to eradicate the established pro-viral reservoir.
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Ren XX, Ma L, Sun WW, Kuang WD, Li TS, Jin X, Wang JH. Dendritic cells maturated by co-culturing with HIV-1 latently infected Jurkat T cells or stimulating with AIDS-associated pathogens secrete TNF-α to reactivate HIV-1 from latency. Virulence 2017; 8:1732-1743. [PMID: 28762863 DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2017.1356535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Elucidation of mechanisms underlying the establishment, maintenance of and reactivation from HIV-1 latency is essential for the development of therapeutic strategies aimed at eliminating HIV-1 reservoirs. Microbial translocation, as a consequence of HIV-1-induced deterioration of host immune system, is known to result in a systemic immune activation and transient outbursts of HIV-1 viremia in chronic HIV-1 infection. How these microbes cause the robust HIV-1 reactivation remains elusive. Dendritic cells (DCs) have previously been shown to reactivate HIV-1 from latency; however, the precise role of DCs in reactivating HIV-1 from latently infected T-cell remains obscure. In this study, by using HIV-1 latently infected Jurkat T cells, we demonstrated that AIDS-associated pathogens as represented by Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and bacterial component lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were unable to directly reactivate HIV-1 from Jurkat T cells; instead, they mature DCs to secrete TNF-α to accomplish this goal. Moreover, we found that HIV-1 latently infected Jurkat T cells could also mature DCs and enhance their TNF-α production during co-culture in a CD40-CD40L-signaling-dependent manner. This in turn led to viral reactivation from Jurkat T cells. Our results reveal how DCs help AIDS-associated pathogens to trigger HIV-1 reactivation from latency.
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- Xiao-Xin Ren
- a Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity , Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University , Suzhou , China.,b Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology , Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai , China
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- a Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity , Institutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University , Suzhou , China.,b Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology , Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai , China
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- b Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology , Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai , China.,c University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , China
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- b Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology , Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai , China.,c University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , China
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- d Department of Infectious Diseases , Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College , Beijing , China
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- b Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology , Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai , China
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- b Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology , Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai , China.,c University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , China
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Promising Role of Toll-Like Receptor 8 Agonist in Concert with Prostratin for Activation of Silent HIV. J Virol 2017; 91:JVI.02084-16. [PMID: 27928016 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02084-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The persistence of latently HIV-infected cells in patients under combined antiretroviral treatment (cART) remains the major hurdle for HIV eradication. Thus far, individual compounds have not been sufficiently potent to reactivate latent virus and guarantee its elimination in vivo. Thus, we hypothesized that transcriptional enhancers, in concert with compounds triggering the innate immune system, are more efficient in reversing latency by creating a Th1 supportive milieu that acts against latently HIV-infected cells at various levels. To test our hypothesis, we screened six compounds on a coculture of latently infected cells (J-lat) and monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MDDCs). The protein kinase C (PKC) agonist prostratin, with a Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) agonist, resulted in greater reversion of HIV latency than any single compound. This combinatorial approach led to a drastic phenotypic and functional maturation of the MDDCs. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and cell-cell interactions were crucial for the greater reversion observed. Similarly, we found a greater potency of the combination of prostratin and TLR8 agonist in reversing HIV latency when applying it to primary cells of HIV-infected patients. Thus, we demonstrate here the synergistic interplay between TLR8-matured MDDCs and compounds acting directly on latently HIV-infected cells, targeting different mechanisms of latency, by triggering various signaling pathways. Moreover, TLR8 triggering may reverse exhaustion of HIV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes that might be essential for killing or constraining the latently infected cells. IMPORTANCE Curing HIV is the Holy Grail. The so-called "shock and kill" strategy relies on drug-mediated reversion of HIV latency and the subsequent death of those cells under combined antiretroviral treatment. So far, no compound achieves efficient reversal of latency or eliminates this latent reservoir. The compounds may not target all of the latency mechanisms in all latently infected cells. Moreover, HIV-associated exhaustion of the immune system hinders the efficient elimination of the reactivated cells. In this study, we demonstrated synergistic latency reversion by combining agonists for protein kinase C and Toll-like receptor 8 in a coculture of latently infected cells with myeloid dendritic cells. The drug prostratin stimulates directly the transcriptional machinery of latently infected cells, and the TLR8 agonist acts indirectly by maturing dendritic cells. These findings highlight the importance of the immune system and its activation, in combination with direct-acting compounds, to reverse latency.
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The Multifaceted Contributions of Chromatin to HIV-1 Integration, Transcription, and Latency. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2016; 328:197-252. [PMID: 28069134 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ircmb.2016.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The capacity of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) to establish latent infections constitutes a major barrier to the development of a cure for HIV-1. In latent infection, replication competent HIV-1 provirus is integrated within the host genome but remains silent, masking the infected cells from the activity of the host immune response. Despite the progress in elucidating the molecular players that regulate HIV-1 gene expression, the mechanisms driving the establishment and maintenance of latency are still not fully understood. Transcription from the HIV-1 genome occurs in the context of chromatin and is subjected to the same regulatory mechanisms that drive cellular gene expression. Much like in eukaryotic genes, the nucleosomal landscape of the HIV-1 promoter and its position within genomic chromatin are determinants of its transcriptional activity. Understanding the multilayered chromatin-mediated mechanisms that underpin HIV-1 integration and expression is of utmost importance for the development of therapeutic strategies aimed at reducing the pool of latently infected cells. In this review, we discuss the impact of chromatin structure on viral integration, transcriptional regulation and latency, and the host factors that influence HIV-1 replication by regulating chromatin organization. Finally, we describe therapeutic strategies under development to target the chromatin-HIV-1 interplay.
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Mann J, Pasternak AO, Chahroudi A, Singh JA, Ross AL. The latest science from the IAS Towards an HIV Cure Symposium: 16-17 July 2016, Durban, South Africa. J Virus Erad 2016; 2:235-241. [PMID: 27781107 PMCID: PMC5075352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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- Jaclyn Mann
- HIV Pathogenesis Programme,
University of KwaZulu-Natal,
Durban,
South Africa
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- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology,
Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam,
the Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine,
Atlanta,
Georgia,
USA
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- International and Scientific Relations, ANRS,
Paris,
France,Corresponding author: Anna Laura Ross,
International and Scientific Relations, ANRS,
101 rue de Tolbiac,
75013Paris,
France
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Puertas MC, Noguera-Julian M, Massanella M, Pou C, Buzon MJ, Clotet B, Stevenson M, Paredes R, Blanco J, Martinez-Picado J. Lack of concordance between residual viremia and viral variants driving de novo infection of CD4(+) T cells on ART. Retrovirology 2016; 13:51. [PMID: 27484989 PMCID: PMC4970251 DOI: 10.1186/s12977-016-0282-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2016] [Accepted: 07/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background In most patients, current antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens can rapidly reduce plasma viral load. However, even after years of effective treatment, a significant proportion of patients show residual plasma viremia below the clinical detection limit. Although residual viremia might be associated with increased chronic immune activation and morbidity, its origin and its potential role in the replenishment of the viral reservoir during suppressive ART is not completely understood. We performed an in-depth genetic analysis of the total and episomal cell-associated viral DNA (vDNA) repertoire in purified CD4+ T cell subsets of three HIV-infected individuals, and used phylogenetic analysis to explore its relationship with plasma viruses. Results The predominant proviral reservoir was established in naïve or memory (central and transitional) CD4+ T cell subsets in patients harboring X4- or R5-tropic viruses, respectively. Regardless of the viral tropism, most plasma viruses detected under suppressive ART resembled the proviral reservoir identified in effector and transitional memory CD4+ T-cell subsets in blood, suggesting that residual viremia originates from these cells in either blood or lymphoid tissue. Most importantly, sequences in episomal vDNA in CD4+ T-cells were not well represented in residual viremia. Conclusions Viral tropism determines the differential distribution of viral reservoir among CD4+ T-cell subsets. In spite of viral tropism, the effector and transitional memory CD4+ T-cells subsets are the main source of residual viremia during suppressive ART, even though their contribution to the total proviral pool is small. However, the lack of concordance between residual viremia and viral variants driving de novo infection of CD4+ T cells on ART may reflect the predominance of defective plasma HIV RNA genomes. These findings highlight the need for monitoring the multiple viral RNA/DNA persistence markers, based on their differential contribution to viral persistence. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12977-016-0282-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Maria C Puertas
- AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa, Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain
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- AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa, Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain.,Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), Vic, Spain
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- AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa, Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain.,Département de Microbiologie, Infectiologie et Immunologie, Centre de Recherche du CHUM et Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
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- AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa, Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain.,Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
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- AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa, Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain.,Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
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- AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa, Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain.,"Lluita Contra la Sida" Foundation, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain.,Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), Vic, Spain
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa, Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain.,"Lluita Contra la Sida" Foundation, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain.,Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), Vic, Spain
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- AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa, Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain.,Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), Vic, Spain
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- AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa, Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain. .,Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), Vic, Spain. .,Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.
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Macatangay BJC, Riddler SA, Wheeler ND, Spindler J, Lawani M, Hong F, Buffo MJ, Whiteside TL, Kearney MF, Mellors JW, Rinaldo CR. Therapeutic Vaccination With Dendritic Cells Loaded With Autologous HIV Type 1-Infected Apoptotic Cells. J Infect Dis 2016; 213:1400-9. [PMID: 26647281 PMCID: PMC4813736 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND We report the results of a phase I/II, open-label, single-arm clinical trial to evaluate the safety and anti-human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) efficacy of an autologous dendritic cell (DC)-based HIV-1 vaccine loaded with autologous HIV-1-infected apoptotic cells. METHODS Antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naive individuals were enrolled, and viremia was suppressed by ART prior to delivery of 4 doses of DC-based vaccine. Participants underwent treatment interruption 6 weeks after the third vaccine dose. The plasma HIV-1 RNA level 12 weeks after treatment interruption was compared to the pre-ART (ie, baseline) level. RESULTS The vaccine was safe and well tolerated but did not prevent viral rebound during treatment interruption. Vaccination resulted in a modest but significant decrease in plasma viremia from the baseline level (from 4.53 log10 copies/mL to 4.27 log10 copies/mL;P= .05). Four of 10 participants had a >0.70 log10 increase in the HIV-1 RNA load in plasma following vaccination, despite continuous ART. Single-molecule sequencing of HIV-1 RNA in plasma before and after vaccination revealed increases in G>A hypermutants in gag and pol after vaccination, which suggests cytolysis of infected cells. CONCLUSIONS A therapeutic HIV-1 vaccine based on DCs loaded with apoptotic bodies was safe and induced T-cell activation and cytolysis, including HIV-1-infected cells, in a subset of study participants. CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRATION NCT00510497.
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
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- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pennsylvania
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Jin C, Li J, Cheng L, Liu F, Wu N. Gp120 binding with DC-SIGN induces reactivation of HIV-1 provirus via the NF-κB signaling pathway. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai) 2016; 48:275-81. [PMID: 26837416 DOI: 10.1093/abbs/gmv138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2015] [Accepted: 11/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The reactivation mechanism of latent human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection is unclear, especially in dendritic cells (DC). DC-specific intercellular adhesion molecule-3-grabbing non-integrin (DC-SIGN) binds with HIV-1 and other pathogens to activate the extracellular regulated protein kinase (ERK) and nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) pathways and regulate cytokine expression. We hypothesized that DC-SIGN-induced signaling pathways may activate HIV-1 provirus. To investigate this hypothesis, we generated a model by transfecting 293T cells with a DC-SIGN expression plasmid and an HIV-1 5' long terminal repeat (LTR) reporter plasmid, and then stimulated the 293T cells with HIV-1 gp120 protein, wild-type HIV-1 or VSV-G-pNL4.3 pseudotype virus (without gp120 protein). It was found that the HIV-1 5'LTR was reactivated by HIV-1 gp120 in DC-SIGN-expressing 293T cells. Then the HIV-1 chronically infected CEM-Bru cells were transfected with DC-SIGN expression plasmid and stimulated by HIV-1 gp120 protein. It was found that early and late HIV-1 provirus replication was reactivated by the HIV-1 gp120/DC-SIGN stimulation. We then investigated the involvement of the ERK, p38 mitogen-activated protein kinases and NF-κB signaling pathways in HIV-1 gp120/DC-SIGN-induced activation of HIV-1 provirus by inhibiting the pathways specifically. Our results indicated that HIV-1 gp120/DC-SIGN stimulation reactivates latent HIV-1 provirus via the NF-κB signal pathway.
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- Changzhong Jin
- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310003, China
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- Department of Infectious Disease, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310003, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310003, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310003, China
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Agudelo M, Figueroa G, Yndart A, Casteleiro G, Muñoz K, Samikkannu T, Atluri V, Nair MP. Alcohol and Cannabinoids Differentially Affect HIV Infection and Function of Human Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells (MDDC). Front Microbiol 2015; 6:1452. [PMID: 26733986 PMCID: PMC4686798 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2015] [Accepted: 12/04/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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During human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, alcohol has been known to induce inflammation while cannabinoids have been shown to have an anti-inflammatory role. For instance cannabinoids have been shown to reduce susceptibility to HIV-1 infection and attenuate HIV replication in macrophages. Recently, we demonstrated that alcohol induces cannabinoid receptors and regulates cytokine production by monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MDDC). However, the ability of alcohol and cannabinoids to alter MDDC function during HIV infection has not been clearly elucidated yet. In order to study the potential impact of alcohol and cannabinoids on differentiated MDDC infected with HIV, monocytes were cultured for 7 days with GM-CSF and IL-4, differentiated MDDC were infected with HIV-1Ba-L and treated with EtOH (0.1 and 0.2%), THC (5 and 10 μM), or JWH-015 (5 and 10 μM) for 4–7 days. HIV infection of MDDC was confirmed by p24 and Long Terminal Repeats (LTR) estimation. MDDC endocytosis assay and cytokine array profiles were measured to investigate the effects of HIV and substances of abuse on MDDC function. Our results show the HIV + EtOH treated MDDC had the highest levels of p24 production and expression when compared with the HIV positive controls and the cannabinoid treated cells. Although both cannabinoids, THC and JWH-015 had lower levels of p24 production and expression, the HIV + JWH-015 treated MDDC had the lowest levels of p24 when compared to the HIV + THC treated cells. In addition, MDDC endocytic function and cytokine production were also differentially altered after alcohol and cannabinoid treatments. Our results show a differential effect of alcohol and cannabinoids, which may provide insights into the divergent inflammatory role of alcohol and cannabinoids to modulate MDDC function in the context of HIV infection.
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- Marisela Agudelo
- Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University Miami, FL, USA
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Gérard A, Ségéral E, Naughtin M, Abdouni A, Charmeteau B, Cheynier R, Rain JC, Emiliani S. The integrase cofactor LEDGF/p75 associates with Iws1 and Spt6 for postintegration silencing of HIV-1 gene expression in latently infected cells. Cell Host Microbe 2015; 17:107-17. [PMID: 25590759 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2014.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2014] [Revised: 10/13/2014] [Accepted: 11/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The persistence of a latent reservoir containing transcriptionally silent, but replication-competent, integrated provirus is a serious challenge to HIV eradication. HIV integration is under the control of LEDGF/p75, the cellular cofactor of viral integrase. Investigating possible postintegration roles for LEDGF/p75, we find that LEDGF/p75 represses HIV expression in latently infected cells. LEDGF/p75 associated with two proteins involved in the control of gene expression and chromatin structure, Spt6 and Iws1, to form a stable complex. Iws1 plays a role in the establishment of latent infection, whereas Spt6 functions to recruit Iws1 and LEDGF/p75 to the silenced provirus and maintains histone occupancy at the HIV promoter. In latently infected cells, depletion of the complex results in reactivation of HIV expression Altogether, our results indicate that a complex containing LEDGF/p75, Iws1, and Spt6 participates in regulating postintegration steps of HIV latency.
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- Annabelle Gérard
- Inserm, U1016, Institut Cochin, 75014 Paris, France; CNRS, UMR8104, 75014 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, 75014 Paris, France.
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- Inserm, U1016, Institut Cochin, 75014 Paris, France; CNRS, UMR8104, 75014 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, 75014 Paris, France
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- Inserm, U1016, Institut Cochin, 75014 Paris, France; CNRS, UMR8104, 75014 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, 75014 Paris, France
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- Inserm, U1016, Institut Cochin, 75014 Paris, France; CNRS, UMR8104, 75014 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, 75014 Paris, France
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- Inserm, U1016, Institut Cochin, 75014 Paris, France; CNRS, UMR8104, 75014 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, 75014 Paris, France
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- Inserm, U1016, Institut Cochin, 75014 Paris, France; CNRS, UMR8104, 75014 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, 75014 Paris, France
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- Inserm, U1016, Institut Cochin, 75014 Paris, France; CNRS, UMR8104, 75014 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, 75014 Paris, France.
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Banks HT, Baraldi R, Cross K, Flores K, McChesney C, Poag L, Thorpe E. Uncertainty quantification in modeling HIV viral mechanics. MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES AND ENGINEERING : MBE 2015; 12:937-964. [PMID: 26280189 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2015.12.937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We consider an in-host model for HIV-1 infection dynamics developed and validated with patient data in earlier work [7]. We revisit the earlier model in light of progress over the last several years in understanding HIV-1 progression in humans. We then consider statistical models to describe the data and use these with residual plots in generalized least squares problems to develop accurate descriptions of the proper weights for the data. We use recent parameter subset selection techniques [5,6] to investigate the impact of estimated parameters on the corresponding selection scores. Bootstrapping and asymptotic theory are compared in the context of confidence intervals for the resulting parameter estimates.
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- H T Banks
- Center for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8212, United States.
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Treatment with antiretroviral therapy dramatically increases the survival of HIV-infected individuals. However, treatment has to be continued for life because it does not lead to the full eradication of infection. HIV persists in resting CD4(+) T cells, and possibly other cell types, and can reemerge from these cells when therapy is interrupted. Here, we review molecular mechanisms that have been proposed to contribute to HIV latency, as well as the relative roles of cis- and trans-acting mechanisms. We also discuss existing and future therapeutic opportunities regarding HIV latency that might lead to a future cure for HIV infection.
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- Matthew S Dahabieh
- Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94941;
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A new model for post-integration latency in macroglial cells to study HIV-1 reservoirs of the brain. AIDS 2015; 29:1147-59. [PMID: 26035317 DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000000691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Macroglial cells like astrocytes are key targets for the formation of HIV-1 reservoirs in the brain. The 'shock-and-kill' HIV-1 cure strategy proposes eradication of reservoirs by clinical treatment with latency reversing agents (LRAs). However, virus activation may endanger the brain, due to limited cell turnover, viral neurotoxicity and poor penetration of antiretroviral drugs. Since the brain is not accessible to clinical sampling, we established an experimental model to investigate the LRA effects on HIV-1 latency in macroglial reservoirs. DESIGN Human neural stem cells (HNSC.100) were used to generate a system that models HIV-1 transcriptional latency in proliferating progenitor, as well as differentiated macroglial cell populations and latency-modulating effects of LRAs and compounds targeting HIV-1 transcription were analysed. METHODS HNSCs were infected with pseudotyped Env-defective HIV-1 viruses. HIV-1 DNA and RNA levels were quantified by qPCR. Expression of latent GFP-reporter viruses was analysed by confocal microscopy and flow cytometry. NF-κB signalling was investigated by confocal microscopy and chromatin immunoprecipitation. RESULTS Two of the eight well known LRAs (tumour necrosis factor-alpha, suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid) reactivated HIV-1 in latently infected HNSCs. Tumour necrosis factor-alpha reactivated HIV-1 in progenitor and differentiated populations, whereas suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid was more potent in progenitors. Pre-treatment with inhibitors of key HIV-1 transcription factors (NF-κB, Cdk9) suppressed HIV-1 reactivation. CONCLUSION We conclude that latent HIV-1 in macroglial reservoirs can be activated by selected LRAs. Identification of small molecules that suppress HIV-1 reactivation supports functional cure strategies. We propose using the HNSC model to develop novel strategies to enforce provirus quiescence in the brain.
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Dendritic cell type-specific HIV-1 activation in effector T cells: implications for latent HIV-1 reservoir establishment. AIDS 2015; 29:1003-14. [PMID: 25768834 DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000000637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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BACKGROUND Latent HIV type I (HIV-1) infections can frequently occur in short-lived proliferating effector T lymphocytes. These latently infected cells could revert into resting T lymphocytes and thereby contribute to the establishment of the long-lived viral reservoir. Monocyte-derived dendritic cells can revert latency in effector T cells in vitro. METHODS Here we investigated the latency activation properties of tissue-specific immune cells, including a large panel of dendritic cell subsets, to explore in which body compartments effector T cells are most likely to maintain latent HIV-1 provirus and thus potentially contribute to the long-lived reservoir. RESULTS Our results demonstrate that blood or genital tract dendritic cells do not activate latent provirus in effector T cells, whereas gut or lymphoid dendritic cells induce virus production from latently infected effector T cells in our in-vitro model for latency. Toll-like receptor 3-induced interferon production by myeloid dendritic cells abolished the dendritic cells' ability to induce viral gene expression. CONCLUSIONS In this study, we show that HIV-1 provirus residing in effector T cells is activated from latency by tissue-specific dendritic cell subsets and other immune cells with remarkably different efficiencies.Our new assay system points to an important, neglected aspect of HIV-1 research: the ability of other immune cells, especially dendritic cells, to differentially affect latency establishment as well as virus reactivation.
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Herrera-Carrillo E, Berkhout B. Gene therapy strategies to block HIV-1 replication by RNA interference. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2015; 848:71-95. [PMID: 25757616 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2432-5_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The cellular mechanism of RNA interference (RNAi) plays an antiviral role in many organisms and can be used for the development of therapeutic strategies against viral pathogens. Persistent infections like the one caused by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) likely require a durable gene therapy approach. The continuous expression of the inhibitory RNA molecules in T cells is needed to effectively block HIV-1 replication. We discuss here several issues, ranging from the choice of RNAi inhibitor and vector system, finding the best target in the HIV-1 RNA genome, alternatively by targeting host mRNAs that encode important viral cofactors, to the setup of appropriate preclinical test systems. Finally, we briefly discuss the relevance of this topic for other viral pathogens that cause a chronic infection in humans.
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- Elena Herrera-Carrillo
- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, K3-110 Meibergdreef 15, Amsterdam, 1105 AS, The Netherlands
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Zhan XY, Wang N, Liu G, Qin L, Xu W, Zhao S, Qin L, Chen X. Plasmodium infection reduces the volume of the viral reservoir in SIV-infected rhesus macaques receiving antiretroviral therapy. Retrovirology 2014; 11:112. [PMID: 25487036 PMCID: PMC4269176 DOI: 10.1186/s12977-014-0112-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2014] [Accepted: 11/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Background Previous studies indicated that Plasmodium infection activates the immune system, including memory CD4+ T cells, which constitute the reservoir of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1). Therefore, we postulated that co-infection with malaria might activate the reservoir of HIV-1. To test this hypothesis, we used a rhesus macaque model of co-infection with malaria and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), along with antiretroviral therapy (ART). Results Our results showed that Plasmodium infection reduced both the replication-competent virus pool in resting CD4+ T cells and the integrated virus DNA (iDNA) load in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in the monkeys. This reduction might be attributable to malaria-mediated activation and apoptotic induction of memory CD4+ T cells. Further studies indicated that histone acetylation and NF-kappaB (NF-κB) activation in resting CD4+ T cells may also play an important role in this reduction. Conclusions The findings of this work expand our knowledge of the interaction between these two diseases. As more HIV-1-infected individuals in malaria-endemic areas receive ART, we should explore whether any of the patients co-infected with Plasmodium experience virologic benefits. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12977-014-0112-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Xiao-Yong Zhan
- Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Center for Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 190 Kaiyuan Avenue, Luogang District, Guangzhou Science Park, Guangzhou, 510530, Guangdong Province, China.
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- Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Center for Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 190 Kaiyuan Avenue, Luogang District, Guangzhou Science Park, Guangzhou, 510530, Guangdong Province, China.
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- Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Center for Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 190 Kaiyuan Avenue, Luogang District, Guangzhou Science Park, Guangzhou, 510530, Guangdong Province, China.
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- Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Center for Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 190 Kaiyuan Avenue, Luogang District, Guangzhou Science Park, Guangzhou, 510530, Guangdong Province, China.
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- Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Center for Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 190 Kaiyuan Avenue, Luogang District, Guangzhou Science Park, Guangzhou, 510530, Guangdong Province, China.
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- Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Center for Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 190 Kaiyuan Avenue, Luogang District, Guangzhou Science Park, Guangzhou, 510530, Guangdong Province, China.
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- Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Center for Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 190 Kaiyuan Avenue, Luogang District, Guangzhou Science Park, Guangzhou, 510530, Guangdong Province, China.
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- Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Center for Infection and Immunity, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 190 Kaiyuan Avenue, Luogang District, Guangzhou Science Park, Guangzhou, 510530, Guangdong Province, China.
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Wang S, Rong L. Stochastic population switch may explain the latent reservoir stability and intermittent viral blips in HIV patients on suppressive therapy. J Theor Biol 2014; 360:137-148. [PMID: 25016044 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.06.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2014] [Revised: 05/18/2014] [Accepted: 06/30/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Highly active antiretroviral therapy can suppress plasma viral loads of HIV-1 infected individuals to below the detection limit of standard clinical assays. However, low-level viremia still persists. Many patients also have transient viral load measurements above the detection limit (the so-called "viral blips"). The latent reservoir consisting of latently infected CD4+ T cells represents a major obstacle to HIV-1 eradication. These cells can be activated to produce virions but the size of the latent reservoir is relatively stable. The mechanisms underlying low viral load persistence, emergence of intermittent viral blips and stability of the latent reservoir are not well understood. Cellular and viral transcription factors play an important role in the establishment and maintenance of HIV-1 latency. Infected cells with intermediate transcriptional activities may either revert to a latent state or become highly activated and produce virions due to intracellular perturbations. Here we develop a mathematical model that includes such stochastic population switch. We demonstrate that the model can generate a stable latent reservoir, intermittent viral blips, as well as low-level viremia persistence. Latently infected cells with intermediate transcription activities may maintain their size through a high level of homeostatic proliferation, while cells with low transcriptional activities are likely to be maintained through the reversion from cells with intermediate transcription activities. Simulations also suggest that treatment intensification or activation therapy may not help to eradicate the latent reservoir. Blocking the proliferation of latently infected cells might be a good strategy. These results provide more insights into the long-term dynamics of virus and latently infected cells in HIV patients on suppressive therapy and may help to develop novel treatment strategies.
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- Sunpeng Wang
- Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Center for Biomedical Research, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA.
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Dahabieh MS, Ooms M, Brumme C, Taylor J, Harrigan PR, Simon V, Sadowski I. Direct non-productive HIV-1 infection in a T-cell line is driven by cellular activation state and NFκB. Retrovirology 2014; 11:17. [PMID: 24502247 PMCID: PMC4015675 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-11-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2013] [Accepted: 02/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Background Molecular latency allows HIV-1 to persist in resting memory CD4+ T-cells as transcriptionally silent provirus integrated into host chromosomal DNA. Multiple transcriptional regulatory mechanisms for HIV-1 latency have been described in the context of progressive epigenetic silencing and maintenance. However, our understanding of the determinants critical for the establishment of latency in newly infected cells is limited. Results In this study, we used a recently described, doubly fluorescent HIV-1 latency model to dissect the role of proviral integration sites and cellular activation state on direct non-productive infections at the single cell level. Proviral integration site mapping of infected Jurkat T-cells revealed that productively and non-productively infected cells are indistinguishable in terms of genomic landmarks, surrounding epigenetic landscapes, and proviral orientation relative to host genes. However, direct non-productive infections were inversely correlated with both cellular activation state and NFκB activity. Furthermore, modulating NFκB with either small molecules or by conditional overexpression of NFκB subunits was sufficient to alter the propensity of HIV-1 to directly enter a non-productive latent state in newly infected cells. Importantly, this modulatory effect was limited to a short time window post-infection. Conclusions Taken together, our data suggest that cellular activation state and NFκB activity during the time of infection, but not the site of proviral integration, are important regulators of direct HIV-1 non-productive infections.
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- Department of Microbiology, The Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1468 Madison Avenue, Annenberg building 18-50, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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van der Sluis RM, Derking R, Breidel S, Speijer D, Berkhout B, Jeeninga RE. Interplay between viral Tat protein and c-Jun transcription factor in controlling LTR promoter activity in different human immunodeficiency virus type I subtypes. J Gen Virol 2014; 95:968-979. [PMID: 24447950 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.059642-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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HIV-1 transcription depends on cellular transcription factors that bind to sequences in the long-terminal repeat (LTR) promoter. Each HIV-1 subtype has a specific LTR promoter configuration, and minor sequence changes in transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) or their arrangement can influence transcriptional activity, virus replication and latency properties. Previously, we investigated the proviral latency properties of different HIV-1 subtypes in the SupT1 T cell line. Here, subtype-specific latency and replication properties were studied in primary PHA-activated T lymphocytes. No major differences in latency and replication capacity were measured among the HIV-1 subtypes. Subtype B and AE LTRs were studied in more detail with regard to a putative AP-1 binding site using luciferase reporter constructs. c-Jun, a member of the AP-1 transcription factor family, can activate both subtype B and AE LTRs, but the latter showed a stronger response, reflecting a closer match with the consensus AP-1 binding site. c-Jun overexpression enhanced Tat-mediated transcription of the viral LTR, but in the absence of Tat inhibited basal promoter activity. Thus, c-Jun can exert a positive or negative effect via the AP-1 binding site in the HIV-1 LTR promoter, depending on the presence or absence of Tat.
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- Renée M van der Sluis
- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Centre for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Centre for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Centre for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Centre for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Centre for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Evans VA, Kumar N, Filali A, Procopio FA, Yegorov O, Goulet JP, Saleh S, Haddad EK, da Fonseca Pereira C, Ellenberg PC, Sekaly RP, Cameron PU, Lewin SR. Myeloid dendritic cells induce HIV-1 latency in non-proliferating CD4+ T cells. PLoS Pathog 2013; 9:e1003799. [PMID: 24339779 PMCID: PMC3855553 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2013] [Accepted: 10/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Latently infected resting CD4+ T cells are a major barrier to HIV cure. Understanding how latency is established, maintained and reversed is critical to identifying novel strategies to eliminate latently infected cells. We demonstrate here that co-culture of resting CD4+ T cells and syngeneic myeloid dendritic cells (mDC) can dramatically increase the frequency of HIV DNA integration and latent HIV infection in non-proliferating memory, but not naïve, CD4+ T cells. Latency was eliminated when cell-to-cell contact was prevented in the mDC-T cell co-cultures and reduced when clustering was minimised in the mDC-T cell co-cultures. Supernatants from infected mDC-T cell co-cultures did not facilitate the establishment of latency, consistent with cell-cell contact and not a soluble factor being critical for mediating latent infection of resting CD4+ T cells. Gene expression in non-proliferating CD4+ T cells, enriched for latent infection, showed significant changes in the expression of genes involved in cellular activation and interferon regulated pathways, including the down-regulation of genes controlling both NF-κB and cell cycle. We conclude that mDC play a key role in the establishment of HIV latency in resting memory CD4+ T cells, which is predominantly mediated through signalling during DC-T cell contact. Current antiretroviral drugs significantly prolong life and reduce morbidity but are unable to cure HIV. While on treatment, the virus is able to hide in resting memory T cells in a silent or “latent” form. These latently infected cells are rare and thus are hard to study using blood from HIV-infected individuals on treatment. Therefore, it is very important to have laboratory models that can closely mimic what is going on in the body. We have developed a novel model of HIV latency in the laboratory. Using this model we have shown that the presence of dendritic cells, an important type of immune cell that can regulate T cell activation, at the time of infection allows for the infection of resting T cells and the establishment of latency. We have demonstrated that this is predominantly mediated by direct cell-to-cell interactions. Further exploration of the mechanisms behind HIV latency could lead to new ways to treat and possibly eradicate HIV.
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- Vanessa A. Evans
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- VGTI-Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America
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- VGTI-Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America
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- Laboratoire d'immunologie, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- VGTI-Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America
- Laboratoire d'immunologie, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Monash Micro Imaging, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- VGTI-Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America
- Laboratoire d'immunologie, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Infectious Diseases Unit, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Infectious Diseases Unit, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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van der Sluis RM, Jeeninga RE, Berkhout B. Establishment and molecular mechanisms of HIV-1 latency in T cells. Curr Opin Virol 2013; 3:700-6. [PMID: 23953324 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2013.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2013] [Accepted: 07/25/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
Treatment of an HIV infected individual with antiretroviral drugs is a successful way to suppress the plasma viral RNA load below the limit of detection (50 copies HIV RNA/ml plasma). This can provide lifelong protection against virus-induced pathogenesis in drug-adherent patients. Unfortunately, even after many years of continuous treatment, the virus persists and the plasma viral load will rebound rapidly when therapy is interrupted. The reason for this rapid rebound is the presence of a long-lived reservoir of latent HIV-1 proviruses that can be reactivated in resting memory T cells. Attempts to eliminate these proviruses have thus far not been successful and this long-lived latent reservoir is therefore considered a major obstacle toward a cure for HIV-1. A detailed understanding of the molecular mechanisms causing HIV latency and knowledge on the establishment of this reservoir may give us clues for future strategies aiming at the eradication of this reservoir.
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- Renée M van der Sluis
- Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Centre for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Mercer J, Greber UF. Virus interactions with endocytic pathways in macrophages and dendritic cells. Trends Microbiol 2013; 21:380-8. [PMID: 23830563 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2013.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2013] [Revised: 06/03/2013] [Accepted: 06/05/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Macrophages and dendritic cells (DCs) are at the front line of defence against fungi, bacteria, and viruses. Together with physical barriers, such as mucus and a range of antimicrobial compounds, they constitute a major part of the intrinsic and innate immune systems. They have elaborate features, including pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) and specialized endocytic mechanisms, cytokines and chemokines, and the ability to call on reserves. As masters of manipulation and counter-attack, viruses shunt intrinsic and innate recognition, enter immune cells, and spread from these cells throughout an organism. Here, we review mechanisms by which viruses subvert endocytic and pathogen-sensing functions of macrophages and DCs, while highlighting possible strategic advantages of infecting cells normally tuned into pathogen destruction.
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- Jason Mercer
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Institute of Biochemistry, Schafmattstr. 18, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland.
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