Possible HIV Cure?
Two doctors in Houston, Texas, believe they might have discovered the Achilles heel of the HIV virus. KHOU's Lee McGuire reports.
To cure HIV, attack the reservoir
Researchers led by David Baltimore, professor of biology at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) started at the beginning of the process, looking for clues into how an HIV reservoir is formed in the first place.There are two known ways that HIV can infect cells, and the human body: cell-free transmission, in which the virus infects immune system cells called T cells it encounters while floating free in plasma; and cell-to-cell transmission, in which the virus moves between T cells by using an infected donor cell as its vehicle.
Once an uninfected target cell is found, the donor cell can then directionally discharge its viral load upon the target. To replicate both types of transmission, the team infected target cells using both cell-free HIV and previously infected donor cells.
They used donor cells that lack a natural marker, HLA-A2, usually used in matching human organ donors to recipients. The target cells did have the marker, and this helped the scientists keep track of which cells were the donors and which were the targets. The target cells were infected either in the absence or in the presence of antiretroviral drugs.
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While these reservoirs are not always well understood, researchers believe they have begun to decode how a reservoir of infection can persist in HIV-positive populations. They propose that a type of HIV infection that uses infected cells to get close to uninfected cells and then discharge a large load of virus on them, may be the reason small populations of HIV-infected cells hang in even when antiretroviral drug treatment has been successful in suppressing most other infections.
researchers led by David Baltimore, professor of biology at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) started at the beginning of the process, looking for clues into how an HIV reservoir is formed in the first place.There are two known ways that HIV can infect cells, and the human body: cell-free transmission, in which the virus infects immune system cells called T cells it encounters while floating free in plasma; and cell-to-cell transmission, in which the virus moves between T cells by using an infected donor cell as its vehicle.
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To cure HIV, attack the reservoir
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