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JCI INSIGHT
卷 2, 期 15, 页码 -出版社
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.93230
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) [MOP-82849, MOP-114957]
- CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network [CTN 247]
- Fonds de Recherche du Quebec-Sante/AIDS and Infectious Diseases Network, Quebec, Canada
- Canadian HIV Cure Enterprise Team Grant from the CIHR [HIG-133050]
- Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research and International AIDS Society
Gut-associated lymphoid tissues are enriched in CCR6(+) Th17-polarized CD4(+) T cells that contribute to HIV-1 persistence during antiretroviral therapy (ART). This raises the need for Th17-targeted immunotherapies. In an effort to identify mechanisms governing HIV-1 permissiveness/persistence in gut-homing Th17 cells, we analyzed the transcriptome of CCR6(+) versus CCR6-T cells exposed to the gut-homing inducer retinoic acid (RA) and performed functional validations in colon biopsies of HIV-infected individuals receiving ART (HIV+ART). Although both CCR6(+) and CCR6-T cells acquired gut-homing markers upon RA exposure, the modulation of unique sets of genes coincided with preferential HIV-1 replication in RA-treated CCR6(+) T cells. This molecular signature included the upregulation of HIV-dependency factors acting at entry/postentry levels, such as the CCR5 and PI3K/Akt/mTORC1 signaling pathways. Of note, mTOR expression/phosphorylation was distinctively induced by RA in CCR6(+) T cells. Consistently, mTOR inhibitors counteracted the effect of RA on HIV replication in vitro and viral reactivation in CD4(+) T cells from HIV+ ART individuals via postentry mechanisms independent of CCR5. Finally, CCR6(+) versus CCR6-T cells infiltrating the colons of HIV+ ART individuals expressed unique molecular signatures, including higher levels of CCR5, integrin beta 7, and mTOR phosphorylation. Together, our results identify mTOR as a druggable key regulator of HIV permissiveness in gut-homing CCR6(+) T cells.
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