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VIRUSES-BASEL
Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/v13122398
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HIV; SIV; viral reservoirs; CD4+T cell subsets; primary infection
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The size of the HIV reservoir in CD4+ T cells during primary infection remains unknown. Memory CD4+ T cells appear to be the major targets for primary infection, and viral reservoirs are equally distributed in systemic and lymphoid compartments in acutely SIV-infected macaques.
The HIV reservoir size in target CD4+ T cells during primary infection remains unknown. Here, we sorted peripheral and intestinal CD4+ T cells and quantified the levels of cell-associated SIV RNA and DNA in rhesus macaques within days of SIVmac251 inoculation. As a major target cell of HIV/SIV, CD4+ T cells in both tissues contained a large amount of SIV RNA and DNA at day 8-13 post-SIV infection, in which productive SIV RNA highly correlated with the levels of cell-associated SIV DNA. Memory CD4+ T cells had much higher viral RNA and DNA than naive subsets, yet memory CD4+ T cells co-expressing CCR5 had no significant reservoir size compared with those that were CCR5-negative in blood and intestine. Collectively, memory CD4+ T cells appear to be the major targets for primary infection, and viral reservoirs are equally distributed in systemic and lymphoid compartments in acutely SIV-infected macaques.
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