CD8+ T cells in HIV control, cure and prevention

DR Collins, GD Gaiha, BD Walker - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
HIV infection can be effectively treated by lifelong administration of combination antiretroviral
therapy, but an effective vaccine will likely be required to end the HIV epidemic. Although the …

[PDF][PDF] Reverse vaccinology: developing vaccines in the era of genomics

A Sette, R Rappuoli - Immunity, 2010 - cell.com
The sequence of microbial genomes made all potential antigens of each pathogen available
for vaccine development. This increased by orders of magnitude potential vaccine targets in …

A COVID-19 peptide vaccine for the induction of SARS-CoV-2 T cell immunity

JS Heitmann, T Bilich, C Tandler, A Nelde, Y Maringer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
T cell immunity is central for the control of viral infections. CoVac-1 is a peptide-based
vaccine candidate, composed of SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes derived from various viral …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2-derived peptides define heterologous and COVID-19-induced T cell recognition

A Nelde, T Bilich, JS Heitmann, Y Maringer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
T cell immunity is central for the control of viral infections. To characterize T cell immunity,
but also for the development of vaccines, identification of exact viral T cell epitopes is …

[HTML][HTML] Long-Term Control of HIV by CCR5 Delta32/Delta32 Stem-Cell Transplantation

G Hütter, D Nowak, M Mossner… - … England Journal of …, 2009 - Mass Medical Soc
Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) requires the presence of a
CD4 receptor and a chemokine receptor, principally chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) …

Administration of broadly neutralizing anti-HIV-1 antibodies at ART initiation maintains long-term CD8+ T cell immunity

M Rosás-Umbert, JD Gunst, MH Pahus… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In simian-human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV)-infected non-human primates, broadly
neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) against the virus appear to stimulate T cell immunity. To …

[HTML][HTML] Magnitude and kinetics of CD8+ T cell activation during hyperacute HIV infection impact viral set point

ZM Ndhlovu, P Kamya, N Mewalal, HN Kløverpris… - Immunity, 2015 - cell.com
CD8+ T cells contribute to the control of HIV, but it is not clear whether initial immune
responses modulate the viral set point. We screened high-risk uninfected women twice a …

[HTML][HTML] Restriction factors: from intrinsic viral restriction to shaping cellular immunity against HIV-1

M Colomer-Lluch, A Ruiz, A Moris… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Antiviral restriction factors are host cellular proteins that constitute a first line of defense
blocking viral replication and propagation. In addition to interfering at critical steps of the …

Influence of HLA-C expression level on HIV control

R Apps, Y Qi, JM Carlson, H Chen, X Gao, R Thomas… - Science, 2013 - science.org
A variant upstream of human leukocyte antigen C (HLA-C) shows the most significant
genome-wide effect on HIV control in European Americans and is also associated with the …

[PDF][PDF] Human immunodeficiency virus controllers: mechanisms of durable virus control in the absence of antiretroviral therapy

SG Deeks, BD Walker - Immunity, 2007 - cell.com
Chronic viral infections can appear in two very different forms: those that are typically
immunologically contained after acute symptomatic infection, such as Epstein-Barr virus …