The timing of HIV-1 infection of cells that persist on therapy is not strongly influenced by replication competency or cellular tropism of the provirus. Joseph, S. B, Abrahams, M., Moeser, M., Tyers, L., Archin, N. M, Council, O. D, Sondgeroth, A., Spielvogel, E., Emery, A., Zhou, S., Doolabh, D., Ismail, S. D, Karim, S. A., Margolis, D. M, Pond, S. K., Garrett, N., Swanstrom, R., & Williamson, C. PLOS Pathogens, 20(2):e1011974, Public Library of Science, feb, 2024.
The timing of HIV-1 infection of cells that persist on therapy is not strongly influenced by replication competency or cellular tropism of the provirus [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
People with HIV-1 (PWH) on antiretroviral therapy (ART) can maintain undetectable virus levels, but a small pool of infected cells persists. This pool is largely comprised of defective proviruses that may produce HIV-1 proteins but are incapable of making infectious virus, with only a fraction (\ 10%) of these cells harboring intact viral genomes, some of which produce infectious virus following ex vivo stimulation (i.e. inducible intact proviruses). A majority of the inducible proviruses that persist on ART are formed near the time of therapy initiation. Here we compared proviral DNA (assessed here as 3' half genomes amplified from total cellular DNA) and inducible replication competent viruses in the pool of infected cells that persists during ART to determine if the original infection of these cells occurred at comparable times prior to therapy initiation. Overall, the average percent of proviruses that formed late (i.e. around the time of ART initiation, 60%) did not differ from the average percent of replication competent inducible viruses that formed late (69%), and this was also true for proviral DNA that was hypermutated (57%). Further, there was no evidence that entry into the long-lived infected cell pool was impeded by the ability to use the CXCR4 coreceptor, nor was the formation of long-lived infected cells enhanced during primary infection, when viral loads are exceptionally high. We observed that infection of cells that transitioned to be long-lived was enhanced among people with a lower nadir CD4+ T cell count. Together these data suggest that the timing of infection of cells that become long-lived is impacted more by biological processes associated with immunodeficiency before ART than the replication competency and/or cellular tropism of the infecting virus or the intactness of the provirus. Further research is needed to determine the mechanistic link between immunodeficiency and the timing of infected cells transitioning to the long-lived pool, particularly whether this is due to differences in infected cell clearance, turnover rates and/or homeostatic proliferation before and after ART.
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abstract = {People with HIV-1 (PWH) on antiretroviral therapy (ART) can maintain undetectable virus levels, but a small pool of infected cells persists. This pool is largely comprised of defective proviruses that may produce HIV-1 proteins but are incapable of making infectious virus, with only a fraction ({\~{}}10{\%}) of these cells harboring intact viral genomes, some of which produce infectious virus following ex vivo stimulation (i.e. inducible intact proviruses). A majority of the inducible proviruses that persist on ART are formed near the time of therapy initiation. Here we compared proviral DNA (assessed here as 3' half genomes amplified from total cellular DNA) and inducible replication competent viruses in the pool of infected cells that persists during ART to determine if the original infection of these cells occurred at comparable times prior to therapy initiation. Overall, the average percent of proviruses that formed late (i.e. around the time of ART initiation, 60{\%}) did not differ from the average percent of replication competent inducible viruses that formed late (69{\%}), and this was also true for proviral DNA that was hypermutated (57{\%}). Further, there was no evidence that entry into the long-lived infected cell pool was impeded by the ability to use the CXCR4 coreceptor, nor was the formation of long-lived infected cells enhanced during primary infection, when viral loads are exceptionally high. We observed that infection of cells that transitioned to be long-lived was enhanced among people with a lower nadir CD4+ T cell count. Together these data suggest that the timing of infection of cells that become long-lived is impacted more by biological processes associated with immunodeficiency before ART than the replication competency and/or cellular tropism of the infecting virus or the intactness of the provirus. Further research is needed to determine the mechanistic link between immunodeficiency and the timing of infected cells transitioning to the long-lived pool, particularly whether this is due to differences in infected cell clearance, turnover rates and/or homeostatic proliferation before and after ART.},
author = {Joseph, Sarah B and Abrahams, Melissa-Rose and Moeser, Matthew and Tyers, Lynn and Archin, Nancie M and Council, Olivia D and Sondgeroth, Amy and Spielvogel, Ean and Emery, Ann and Zhou, Shuntai and Doolabh, Deelan and Ismail, Sherazaan D and Karim, Salim Abdool and Margolis, David M and Pond, Sergei Kosakovsky and Garrett, Nigel and Swanstrom, Ronald and Williamson, Carolyn},
doi = {10.1371/JOURNAL.PPAT.1011974},
editor = {Moore, Penny L.},
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isbn = {1111111111},
issn = {1553-7374},
journal = {PLOS Pathogens},
keywords = {Antiretroviral therapy,CCR5 coreceptor,DNA replication,Genomics,HIV-1,OA,Phylogenetic analysis,T helper cells,Viral replication,fund{\_}ack,original},
mendeley-tags = {OA,fund{\_}ack,original},
month = {feb},
number = {2},
pages = {e1011974},
publisher = {Public Library of Science},
title = {{The timing of HIV-1 infection of cells that persist on therapy is not strongly influenced by replication competency or cellular tropism of the provirus}},
url = {https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1011974},
volume = {20},
year = {2024}
}

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