Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Hallmarks of primate lentiviral immunodeficiency infection recapitulate loss of innate lymphoid cells

  • Joseph C. Mudd,
  • Kathleen Busman-Sahay,
  • Sarah R. DiNapoli,
  • Stephen Lai,
  • Virginia Sheik,
  • Andrea Lisco,
  • Claire Deleage,
  • Brian Richardson,
  • David J. Palesch,
  • Mirko Paiardini,
  • Mark Cameron,
  • Irini Sereti,
  • R. Keith Reeves,
  • Jacob D. Estes,
  • Jason M. Brenchley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05528-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) have been shown to be depleted during HIV-1 infection. Here the authors show that ILC loss is associated with CD4 depletion and gastrointestinal damage in a primate model of SIV infection.