Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Evidence for persistence of the SHIV reservoir early after MHC haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

  • Lucrezia Colonna,
  • Christopher W. Peterson,
  • John B. Schell,
  • Judith M. Carlson,
  • Victor Tkachev,
  • Melanie Brown,
  • Alison Yu,
  • Sowmya Reddy,
  • Willi M. Obenza,
  • Veronica Nelson,
  • Patricia S. Polacino,
  • Heather Mack,
  • Shiu-Lok Hu,
  • Katie Zeleski,
  • Michelle Hoffman,
  • Joe Olvera,
  • Scott N. Furlan,
  • Hengqi Zheng,
  • Agne Taraseviciute,
  • Daniel J. Hunt,
  • Kayla Betz,
  • Jennifer F. Lane,
  • Keith Vogel,
  • Charlotte E. Hotchkiss,
  • Cassie Moats,
  • Audrey Baldessari,
  • Robert D. Murnane,
  • Christopher English,
  • Cliff A. Astley,
  • Solomon Wangari,
  • Brian Agricola,
  • Joel Ahrens,
  • Naoto Iwayama,
  • Andrew May,
  • Laurence Stensland,
  • Meei-Li W. Huang,
  • Keith R. Jerome,
  • Hans-Peter Kiem,
  • Leslie S. Kean

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06736-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) has led to the cure of HIV in one individual, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Here, the authors present a model of allo-HCT in SHIV-infected nonhuman primates and show that the SHIV reservoir persists in multiple tissues early after transplantation.