Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Broad activation of latent HIV-1 in vivo

  • Kirston Barton,
  • Bonnie Hiener,
  • Anni Winckelmann,
  • Thomas Aagaard Rasmussen,
  • Wei Shao,
  • Karen Byth,
  • Robert Lanfear,
  • Ajantha Solomon,
  • James McMahon,
  • Sean Harrington,
  • Maria Buzon,
  • Mathias Lichterfeld,
  • Paul W. Denton,
  • Rikke Olesen,
  • Lars Østergaard,
  • Martin Tolstrup,
  • Sharon R. Lewin,
  • Ole Schmeltz Søgaard,
  • Sarah Palmer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12731
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Treatment of HIV-1 infected patients with latency-reversing agents (LRA) induces transcription of proviruses in CD4 T cells. Using single-genome sequencing, the authors show that the LRA-induced CD4 T cell-associated HIV RNA is genetically diverse and contains a high proportion of defective RNA.