Recommendations for measuring HIV reservoir size in cure-directed clinical trials

M Abdel-Mohsen, D Richman, RF Siliciano… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Therapeutic strategies are being clinically tested either to eradicate latent HIV reservoirs or
to achieve virologic control in the absence of antiretroviral therapy. Attaining this goal will …

Why and where an HIV cure is needed and how it might be achieved

T Ndung'u, JM McCune, SG Deeks - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Despite considerable global investment, only 60% of people who live with HIV currently
receive antiretroviral therapy. The sustainability of current programmes remains unknown …

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

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

Parallel analysis of transcription, integration, and sequence of single HIV-1 proviruses

KB Einkauf, MR Osborn, C Gao, W Sun, X Sun, X Lian… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
HIV-1-infected cells that persist despite antiretroviral therapy (ART) are frequently
considered" transcriptionally silent," but active viral gene expression may occur in some …

Distinct viral reservoirs in individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1

C Jiang, X Lian, C Gao, X Sun, KB Einkauf… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Sustained, drug-free control of HIV-1 replication is naturally achieved in less than 0.5% of
infected individuals (here termed 'elite controllers'), despite the presence of a replication …

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

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

HIV persists throughout deep tissues with repopulation from multiple anatomical sources

A Chaillon, S Gianella, S Dellicour… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
BACKGROUND Understanding HIV dynamics across the human body is important for cure
efforts. This goal has been hampered by technical difficulties and the challenge of obtaining …

[HTML][HTML] Differential decay of intact and defective proviral DNA in HIV-1–infected individuals on suppressive antiretroviral therapy

MJ Peluso, P Bacchetti, KD Ritter, S Beg, J Lai… - JCI insight, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND The relative stabilities of the intact and defective HIV genomes over time
during effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) have not been fully characterized. METHODS …

The HIV-1 proviral landscape reveals that Nef contributes to HIV-1 persistence in effector memory CD4+ T cells

G Duette, B Hiener, H Morgan… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Despite long-term antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV-1 persists within a reservoir of CD4+ T
cells that contribute to viral rebound if treatment is interrupted. Identifying the cellular …

The replication-competent HIV-1 latent reservoir is primarily established near the time of therapy initiation

MR Abrahams, SB Joseph, N Garrett, L Tyers… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) is highly effective at suppressing HIV-1 replication, the
virus persists as a latent reservoir in resting CD4+ T cells during therapy. This reservoir …