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- Title
Long-Term Reduction in Peripheral Blood HIV Type 1 Reservoirs Following Reduced-Intensity Conditioning Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation.
- Authors
Henrich, Timothy J.; Hu, Zixin; Li, Jonathan Z.; Sciaranghella, Gaia; Busch, Michael P.; Keating, Sheila M.; Gallien, Sebastien; Lin, Nina H.; Giguel, Francoise F.; Lavoie, Laura; Ho, Vincent T.; Armand, Philippe; Soiffer, Robert J.; Sagar, Manish; LaCasce, Ann S.; Kuritzkes, Daniel R.
- Abstract
Background. The long-term impact of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reservoirs in patients receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) is largely unknown.Methods. We studied the effects of a reduced-intensity conditioning allogeneic HSCT from donors with wild-type–CCR5+ cells on HIV-1 peripheral blood reservoirs in 2 patients heterozygous for the ccr5Δ32 mutation. In-depth analyses of the HIV-1 reservoir size in peripheral blood, coreceptor use, and specific antibody responses were performed on samples obtained before and up to 3.5 years after HSCT receipt.Results. Although HIV-1 DNA was readily detected in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) before and 2–3 months after HSCT receipt, HIV-1 DNA and RNA were undetectable in PBMCs, CD4+ T cells, or plasma up to 21 and 42 months after HSCT. The loss of detectable HIV-1 correlated temporally with full donor chimerism, development of graft-versus-host disease, and decreases in HIV-specific antibody levels.Conclusions. The ability of donor cells to engraft without evidence of ongoing HIV-1 infection suggests that HIV-1 replication may be fully suppressed during cART and does not contribute to maintenance of viral reservoirs in peripheral blood in our patients. HSCTs with wild-type–CCR5+ donor cells can lead to a sustained reduction in the size of the peripheral reservoir of HIV-1.
- Subjects
BLOOD cells; HIV infections; HEMATOPOIETIC stem cell transplantation; HIV; GENETIC mutation; T cells; VIRAL replicons
- Publication
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2013, Vol 207, Issue 11, p1694
- ISSN
0022-1899
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/infdis/jit086