Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Latency reversal plus natural killer cells diminish HIV reservoir in vivo

  • Jocelyn T. Kim,
  • Tian-Hao Zhang,
  • Camille Carmona,
  • Bryanna Lee,
  • Christopher S. Seet,
  • Matthew Kostelny,
  • Nisarg Shah,
  • Hongying Chen,
  • Kylie Farrell,
  • Mohamed S. A. Soliman,
  • Melanie Dimapasoc,
  • Michelle Sinani,
  • Kenia Yazmin Reyna Blanco,
  • David Bojorquez,
  • Hong Jiang,
  • Yuan Shi,
  • Yushen Du,
  • Natalia L. Komarova,
  • Dominik Wodarz,
  • Paul A. Wender,
  • Matthew D. Marsden,
  • Ren Sun,
  • Jerome A. Zack

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27647-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Here, Kim et al. describe a new kick and kill strategy utilizing a single administration of a protein kinase C modulator and latency reversing agent in combination with injections of allogeneic peripheral blood natural killer cells diminishes the HIV reservoir in HIV-infected humanized mice.