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Mild HIV-specific selective forces overlaying natural CD4+ T cell dynamics explain the clonality and decay dynamics of HIV reservoir cells

Reeves, D. B.; Rigau, D. N.; Romero, A.; Zhang, H.; Simonetti, F. R.; Varriale, J.; Hoh, R.; Zhang, L.; Smith, K. N.; Montaner, L. J.; Rubin, L. H.; Gange, S. J.; Roan, N. R.; Tien, P. C.; Margolick, J. B.; Peluso, M. J.; Deeks, S. G.; Schiffer, J. T.; Siliciano, J. D.; Siliciano, R. F.; Antar, A. A. R.

2024-02-15 hiv aids
10.1101/2024.02.13.24302704 medRxiv
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The latent reservoir of HIV persists for decades in people living with HIV (PWH) on antiretroviral therapy (ART). To determine if persistence arises from the natural dynamics of memory CD4+ T cells harboring HIV, we compared the clonal dynamics of HIV proviruses to that of memory CD4+ T cell receptors (TCR{beta}) from the same PWH and from HIV-seronegative people. We show that clonal dominance of HIV proviruses and antigen-specific CD4+ T cells are similar but that the fields understanding of the persistence of the less clonally dominant reservoir is significantly limited by undersampling. We demonstrate that increasing reservoir clonality over time and differential decay of intact and defective proviruses cannot be explained by mCD4+ T cell kinetics alone. Finally, we develop a stochastic model of TCR{beta} and proviruses that recapitulates experimental observations and suggests that HIV-specific negative selection mediates approximately 6% of intact and 2% of defective proviral clearance. Thus, HIV persistence is mostly, but not entirely, driven by natural mCD4+ T cell kinetics.

Published in Cell Systems (predicted rank #2) · training set

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