Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

S100A8-mediated metabolic adaptation controls HIV-1 persistence in macrophages in vivo

  • Fernando Real,
  • Aiwei Zhu,
  • Boxin Huang,
  • Ania Belmellat,
  • Alexis Sennepin,
  • Thomas Vogl,
  • Céline Ransy,
  • Marc Revol,
  • Riccardo Arrigucci,
  • Anne Lombès,
  • Johannes Roth,
  • Maria Laura Gennaro,
  • Frédéric Bouillaud,
  • Sarra Cristofari,
  • Morgane Bomsel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33401-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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HIV-1 eradication is hindered by viral persistence in different cell reservoirs, including circulatory CD4+ T-cells and tissue-resident macrophages. Here, by analyzing male genital mucosa from cART-suppressed HIV1-infected individuals, Real et al. show that M4 macrophages represent the major macrophage HIV-1 reservoir in this tissue. These macrophages have an inflammatory IL1R+S100A8+MMP7+M4-phenotype, and contain transcriptionally active HIV-1, which reactivate infectious virus production from viral latency in response to autocrine/paracrine S100A8-mediated glycolysis.