Impact of a TLR9 agonist and broadly neutralizing antibodies on HIV-1 persistence: the randomized phase 2a TITAN trial

JD Gunst, JF Højen, MH Pahus, M Rosás-Umbert… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Inducing antiretroviral therapy (ART)-free virological control is a critical step toward a human
immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) cure. In this phase 2a, placebo-controlled, double …

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 …

Signatures of immune selection in intact and defective proviruses distinguish HIV-1 elite controllers

X Lian, C Gao, X Sun, C Jiang, KB Einkauf… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Increasing evidence suggests that durable drug-free control of HIV-1 replication is enabled
by effective cellular immune responses that may induce an attenuated viral reservoir …

BCL-2 antagonism sensitizes cytotoxic T cell–resistant HIV reservoirs to elimination ex vivo

Y Ren, SH Huang, S Patel… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Curing HIV infection will require the elimination of a reservoir of infected CD4+ T cells that
persists despite HIV-specific cytotoxic T cell (CTL) responses. Although viral latency is a …

Short-course toll-like receptor 9 agonist treatment impacts innate immunity and plasma viremia in individuals with human immunodeficiency virus infection

L Vibholm, MH Schleimann, JF Højen… - Clinical Infectious …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background. Treatment with latency reversing agents (LRAs) enhances human
immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) transcription in vivo but leads to only modest …

Therapeutic targeting of HIV reservoirs: how to give T cells a new direction

H Yang, Z Wallace, L Dorrell - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
HIV cannot be cured by current antiretroviral therapy (ART) because it persists in a
transcriptionally silent form in long-lived CD4+ cells. Leading efforts to develop a functional …

Clinical trials aimed at HIV cure or remission: new pathways and lessons learned

MD Schou, OS Søgaard… - Expert Review of Anti …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The main barrier to finding a cure against HIV is the latent HIV reservoir, which
persists in people living with HIV (PLWH) despite antiretroviral treatment (ART). Here, we …

Differentiation into an Effector Memory Phenotype Potentiates HIV-1 Latency Reversal in CD4+ T Cells

DA Kulpa, A Talla, JH Brehm, SP Ribeiro… - Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
During antiretroviral therapy (ART), human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) persists
as a latent reservoir in CD4+ T cell subsets in central memory (TCM), transitional memory …

HIV-specific granzyme B-secreting but not gamma interferon-secreting T cells are associated with reduced viral reservoirs in early HIV infection

FY Yue, JC Cohen, M Ho, AKMN Rahman… - Journal of …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A major barrier to a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection cure
is the establishment of a viral reservoir in spite of combined antiretroviral therapy (cART). It is …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacologic HIV-1 Nef blockade promotes CD8 T cell–mediated elimination of latently HIV-1–infected cells in vitro

S Mujib, A Saiyed, S Fadel, A Bozorgzad, N Aidarus… - JCI insight, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Eradication of the HIV-1 latent reservoir represents the current paradigm to developing a
cure for AIDS. HIV-1 has evolved multiple mechanisms to evade CD8 T cell responses …