Measuring the latent reservoir in vivo

Current efforts toward achieving a cure for HIV are focused on developing strategies to eliminate latently infected CD4+ T cells, which represent the major barrier to virus eradication. Sensitive, precise, and practical assays that can reliably characterize and measure this HIV reservoir and can reliably measure the impact of a candidate treatment strategy are essential. PCR-based procedures for detecting integrated HIV DNA will overestimate the size of the reservoir by detecting replication-incompetent proviruses; however, viral outgrowth assays underestimate the size of the reservoir. Here, we describe the attributes and limitations of current procedures for measuring the HIV reservoir. Characterizing their relative merits will require rigorous evaluation of their performance characteristics (sensitivity, specificity, reproducibility, etc.) and their relationship to the results of clinical studies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:126

Enthalten in:

The Journal of clinical investigation - 126(2016), 2 vom: 02. Feb., Seite 464-72

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Massanella, Marta [VerfasserIn]
Richman, Douglas D [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

DNA, Viral
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Review

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Date Completed 08.07.2016

Date Revised 24.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1172/JCI80567

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM257020284