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Memory CD4+ T cell subsets show differential responses to HIV latency reversing agents [LRA stimulated]

ABSTRACT: HIV-1 persists in individuals on ART in infected central (CM), transitional (TM) and effector memory (EM) CD4+ T cells. We developed LARA (latency and reversion assay), which facilitates the examination of HIV latency reversal in CM, TM and EM subsets in a single assay. Studies with latency reversing agents (LRAs) revealed responses specific to each subset, including compounds that significantly reversed latency in all subsets but with a range of efficiency (bryostatin) to those that demonstrated subset specificity (IL-15). Significantly, LARA has allowed the demonstration that EM cells display a more activated profile compared to CM, which translated to enhanced efficiency in responsiveness to multiple LRAs and allowed the identification of mechanisms associated with the compounds that reactivate latent HIV in all subsets. Understanding the responsiveness of memory CD4+ T cells subsets to LRAs will accelerate the development of anti-latency therapy to interfering with viral persistence in vivo.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE94150 | GEO | 2018/01/26

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Targeted HIV cure strategies require definition of the mechanisms that maintain the virus. Here, we tracked HIV replication and the persistence of infected CD4 T cells in individuals with natural virologic control by sequencing viruses, T cell receptor genes, HIV integration sites and cellular transcriptomes. Our results revealed three mechanisms of HIV persistence operating within distinct anatomic and functional compartments. In lymph node, we detected viruses with genetic and transcriptional attributes of active replication in both T follicular helper (TFH) cells and non-TFH memory cells. In blood, we detected inducible proviruses of archival origin among highly differentiated, clonally expanded cells. Linking the lymph node and blood was a small population of circulating cells harboring inducible proviruses of recent origin. Thus, HIV replication in lymphoid tissue, clonal expansion of infected cells, and recirculation of recently infected cells act together to maintain the virus in HIV controllers despite effective antiviral immunity. Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) was used to sort subsets of CD4 T cells from blood (peripheral blood mononuclear cells; PBMC) and lymph node from a cohort of HIV-infected people with natural control of the virus (termed HIV controllers). Subsets of CD4 T cells that were sorted are as follows: from blood, (1) naÃ¯ve (N), (2) central memory (CM), (3) transitional memory (TM), and (4) effector memory (EM); from lymph node, (1) naÃ¯ve (N), (2) non-germinal center T-follicular helpers (nGC), (3) germinal center T-follicular helpers (Tfh), (4) effector memory (EM), and (5) other central memory-like subsets (CMPD1lo57lo, CMPD1lo57hi, and/or CMPD1lo). Total RNA and total DNA were extracted from these sorted subsets in separate fractions using RNAzol RT and DNAzol. Total cellular DNA was used for HIV quantification and sequence analysis as describe in the publication. Total RNA used for mRNA library construction by oligo-dT purification (Dynabeads), random fragmentation by heating in the presence of Magnesium (in form of 5x first-strand buffer, LifeTech), reverse transcription (SuperScript III), and then second-strand synthesis, end repair, a-tailing, and adaptor ligation using NEBNext enzyme master mixes and oligonucleotides. Libraries were sequenced on an Illumina HiSeq2000. Please note that each 'source name' value represent individual who havs HIV infection with natural control of the virus.

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Memory CD4+ T cell subsets show differential responses to HIV latency reversing agents [LRA stimulated]

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