Jenna Honeycutt表示“这是关于巨噬细胞能够被HIV感染并会对ART做出反应的首次报道。此外,对巨噬细胞的有效感染会让HIV在ART治疗期间持续存在;更重要的是,即使是HIV感染的主要靶细胞——T细胞——不存在的情况下,巨噬细胞也可以在停止ART治疗后重新启动并维持HIV的感染。” [8]
该研究团队接下来的目标是探究巨噬细胞中HIV持续存在的调控因素,携带HIV的巨噬细胞在治疗期间隐藏在身体的什么部位,以及巨噬细胞是如何应对旨在清除HIV的治疗性干预措施的[8]。
参考资料:
[1] Honeycutt JB, Thayer WO, Baker CE, Ribeiro RM, Lada SM, et al. 2017. HIV persistence in tissue macrophages of humanized myeloid-only mice during antiretroviral therapy. Nature Medicine
[2] Calantone N, Wu F, Klase Z, Deleage C, Perkins M, et al. 2014. Tissue myeloid cells in SIV-infected primates acquire viral DNA through phagocytosis of infected T cells. Immunity 41:493-502
[3] Sharp PM, Hahn BH. 2011. Origins of HIV and the AIDS pandemic. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 1:a006841
[4] http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/hiv/en/
[5] Stevenson M. 2017. HIV persistence in macrophages. Nature Medicine 23:538-9
[6] Honeycutt JB, Wahl A, Baker C, Spagnuolo RA, Foster J, et al. 2016. Macrophages sustain HIV replication in vivo independently of T cells. The Journal of clinical investigation 126:1353-66
[7] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160308134758.htm
[8] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170417114806.htm