International AIDS Society global scientific strategy: towards an HIV cure 2016

SG Deeks, SR Lewin, AL Ross, J Ananworanich… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Antiretroviral therapy is not curative. Given the challenges in providing lifelong therapy to a
global population of more than 35 million people living with HIV, there is intense interest in …

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 …

A quantitative approach for measuring the reservoir of latent HIV-1 proviruses

KM Bruner, Z Wang, FR Simonetti, AM Bender… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
A stable latent reservoir for HIV-1 in resting CD4+ T cells is the principal barrier to a cure,–.
Curative strategies that target the reservoir are being tested, and require accurate, scalable …

Rapid HIV RNA rebound after antiretroviral treatment interruption in persons durably suppressed in Fiebig I acute HIV infection

DJ Colby, L Trautmann, S Pinyakorn, L Leyre… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Antiretroviral therapy during the earliest stage of acute HIV infection (Fiebig I) might
minimize establishment of a latent HIV reservoir and thereby facilitate viremic control after …

HIV silencing and cell survival signatures in infected T cell reservoirs

IC Clark, P Mudvari, S Thaploo, S Smith, M Abu-Laban… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Rare CD4 T cells that contain HIV under antiretroviral therapy represent an important barrier
to HIV cure,–, but the infeasibility of isolating and characterizing these cells in their natural …

CD4+ T Cells Expressing PD-1, TIGIT and LAG-3 Contribute to HIV Persistence during ART

R Fromentin, W Bakeman, MB Lawani, G Khoury… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
HIV persists in a small pool of latently infected cells despite antiretroviral therapy (ART).
Identifying cellular markers expressed at the surface of these cells may lead to novel …

Defective HIV-1 proviruses are expressed and can be recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocytes, which shape the proviral landscape

RA Pollack, RB Jones, M Pertea, KM Bruner… - Cell host & …, 2017 - cell.com
Despite antiretroviral therapy, HIV-1 persists in memory CD4+ T cells, creating a barrier to
cure. The majority of HIV-1 proviruses are defective and considered clinically irrelevant …

Pembrolizumab induces HIV latency reversal in people living with HIV and cancer on antiretroviral therapy

TS Uldrick, SV Adams, R Fromentin, M Roche… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
In people living with HIV (PLWH) on antiretroviral therapy (ART), virus persists in a latent
form where there is minimal transcription or protein expression. Latently infected cells are a …

Single-cell characterization and quantification of translation-competent viral reservoirs in treated and untreated HIV infection

M Pardons, AE Baxter, M Massanella… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The phenotypic characterization of the cells in which HIV persists during antiretroviral
therapy (ART) remains technically challenging. We developed a simple flow cytometry …

PD-1+ and follicular helper T cells are responsible for persistent HIV-1 transcription in treated aviremic individuals

R Banga, FA Procopio, A Noto, G Pollakis… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
The mechanisms responsible for the persistence of HIV-1 after many years of suppressive
antiretroviral therapy (ART) have been only partially elucidated. Most of the studies …