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STAR Protoc ; 2(4): 100885, 2021 12 17.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34693363

RESUMO

Most latent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) proviruses are defective and cannot produce infectious virions. Thus, the number of HIV proviruses with intact genomes is a relevant clinical parameter to assess therapies for HIV cure. We describe high-molecular-weight DNA isolation, followed by restriction enzyme fragmentation that limits cutting within the HIV genome. Multiplexed droplet digital PCR quantifies five targets spanning the HIV genome to estimate potentially intact proviral copies. A reference assay counts the number of T lymphocytes and assesses the level of DNA shearing. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Levy et al. (2021).


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Infecções por HIV/virologia , HIV-1/genética , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase/métodos , Provírus/genética , Carga Viral/métodos , DNA Viral/sangue , DNA Viral/genética , Genoma Viral/genética , Humanos
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Cell Rep Med ; 2(4): 100243, 2021 04 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33948574

RESUMO

Quantifying the replication-competent HIV reservoir is essential for evaluating curative strategies. Viral outgrowth assays (VOAs) underestimate the reservoir because they fail to induce all replication-competent proviruses. Single- or double-region HIV DNA assays overestimate it because they fail to exclude many defective proviruses. We designed two triplex droplet digital PCR assays, each with 2 unique targets and 1 in common, and normalize the results to PCR-based T cell counts. Both HIV assays are specific, sensitive, and reproducible. Together, they estimate the number of proviruses containing all five primer-probe regions. Our 5-target results are on average 12.1-fold higher than and correlate with paired quantitative VOA (Spearman's ρ = 0.48) but estimate a markedly smaller reservoir than previous DNA assays. In patients on antiretroviral therapy, decay rates in blood CD4+ T cells are faster for intact than for defective proviruses, and intact provirus frequencies are similar in mucosal and circulating T cells.


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Infecções por HIV/genética , HIV-1/genética , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , Provírus/genética , DNA Viral/análise , Soropositividade para HIV/genética , Humanos , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase/métodos , Carga Viral/métodos , Latência Viral/genética
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