Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy Duration on HIV-1 Infection of T Cells within Anatomic Sites
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Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy Duration on HIV-1 Infection of T Cells within Anatomic Sites
Abstract
Understanding the impact of antiretroviral therapy (ART) duration on HIV-infected cells is critical for developing successful curative strategies. To address this issue, we conducted a cross-sectional/inter-participant genetic characterization of HIV-1 RNA from pre- and on-therapy plasmas and HIV-1 DNA from CD4+ T cell subsets derived from peripheral blood (PB), lymph node (LN), and gut tissues of 26 participants after 3 to 17.8 years of ART. Our studies revealed in four acute/early participants who had paired PB and LN samples a substantial reduction in the proportion of HIV-infected cells per year on therapy within the LN. Extrapolation to all 12 acute/early participants estimated a much smaller reduction in the proportion of HIV-1-infected cells within LNs per year on therapy that was similar to that in the participants treated during chronic infection. LN-derived effector memory T (TEM) cells contained HIV-1 DNA that was genetically identical to viral sequences derived from pre- and on-therapy plasma samples. The proportion of identical HIV-1 DNA sequences increased within PB-derived TEM cells. However, the infection frequency of TEM cells in PB was stable, indicating that cellular proliferation that compensates for T cell loss over time contributes to HIV-1 persistence. This study suggests that ART reduces HIV-infected T cells and that clonal expansion of HIV-infected cells maintains viral persistence. Importantly, LN-derived TEM cells are a probable source of HIV-1 genomes capable of producing infectious HIV-1 and should be targeted by future curative strategies.IMPORTANCE HIV-1 persists as an integrated genome in CD4+ memory T cells during effective therapy, and cessation of current treatments results in resumption of viral replication. To date, the impact of antiretroviral therapy duration on HIV-infected CD4+ T cells and the mechanisms of viral persistence in different anatomic sites is not clearly elucidated. In the current study, we found that treatment duration was associated with a reduction in HIV-infected T cells. Our genetic analyses revealed that CD4+ effector memory T (TEM) cells derived from the lymph node appeared to contain provirus that was genetically identical to plasma-derived virions. Moreover, we found that cellular proliferation counterbalanced the decay of HIV-infected cells throughout therapy. The contribution of cellular proliferation to viral persistence is particularly significant in TEM cells. Our study emphasizes the importance of HIV-1 intervention and provides new insights into the location of memory T cells infected with HIV-1 DNA, which is capable of contributing to viremia.
Keywords: CD4+ T cell subsets; HIV-1; HIV-1 persistence; acute/early infection; anatomic sites; cellular proliferation; chronic infection; long-term antiretroviral therapy; single-genome sequencing; single-proviral sequencing.
Copyright © 2020 Lee et al.
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