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Stimulation of HIV-specific cellular immunity by structured treatment interruption fails to enhance viral control in chronic HIV infection

Oxenius, A., Price, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9416-2737, Gunthard, H. F., Dawson, S. J., Fagard, C., Perrin, L., Fischer, M., Weber, R., Plana, M., Garcia, F., Hirschel, B., McLean, A. and Phillips, R. E. 2002. Stimulation of HIV-specific cellular immunity by structured treatment interruption fails to enhance viral control in chronic HIV infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99 (21) , pp. 13747-13752. 10.1073/pnas.202372199

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Abstract

Potent antiretroviral therapy (ART) suppresses HIV-1 viral replication and results in decreased morbidity and mortality. However, prolonged treatment is associated with drug-induced toxicity, emergence of drug-resistant viral strains, and financial constraints. Structured therapeutic interruptions (STIs) have been proposed as a strategy that could boost HIV-specific immunity, through controlled exposure to autologous virus over limited time periods, and subsequently control viral replication in the absence of ART. Here, we analyzed the impact of repeated STIs on virological and immunological parameters in a large prospective STI study. We show that: (i) the plateau virus load (VL) reached after STIs correlated with pretreatment VL, the amount of viral recrudescence during the treatment interruptions, and the off-treatment viral rebound rate; (ii) the magnitude and the breadth of the HIV-specific CD8+ T lymphocyte response, despite marked interpatient variability, increased overall with STI. However, the quantity and quality of the post-STI response was comparable to the response observed before any therapy; (iii) individuals with strong and broad HIV-specific CD8+ T lymphocyte responses at baseline retained these characteristics during and after STI; (iv) the increase in HIV-specific CD8+ T lymphocyte frequencies induced by STI was not correlated with decreased viral set point after STI; and (v) HIV-specific CD4+ T lymphocyte responses increased with STI, but were subsequently maintained only in patients with low pretreatment and plateau VLs. Overall, these data indicate that STI-induced quantitative boosting of HIV-specific cellular immunity was not associated with substantial change in viral replication and that STI was largely restoring pretherapy CD8+ T cell responses in patients with established infection.

Item Type: Article
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR180 Immunology
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
ISSN: 0027-8424
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 17 May 2016
Last Modified: 01 Nov 2022 10:18
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/90957

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