Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Single-cell TCR sequencing reveals phenotypically diverse clonally expanded cells harboring inducible HIV proviruses during ART

  • Pierre Gantner,
  • Amélie Pagliuzza,
  • Marion Pardons,
  • Moti Ramgopal,
  • Jean-Pierre Routy,
  • Rémi Fromentin,
  • Nicolas Chomont

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17898-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The cause of clonal expansions in the HIV reservoir remains unclear. Here, Gantner et al. perform single-cell TCR sequencing on longitudinal samples from eight individuals on antiretroviral therapy and find that antigens inducing clonal expansions of memory cells are major contributors to the HIV reservoir.