Chromatin maturation of the HIV provirus in primary resting CD4+ T cells
Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE121055 | GEO | 2019/12/16
REPOSITORIES: GEO
Similar Datasets
Project description:The reservoir of latently HIV-1 infected cells is heterogeneous. To achieve an HIV-1 cure the reservoir of activatable proviruses should be removed, whereas permanently silenced proviruses may be tolerated. We have developed a method to assess the proviral nuclear microenvironment in single cells. Latently HIV-1 infected cells were transduced with a zinc finger protein specifically binding to the HIV-1 promoter, producing a fluorescent signal as the viral transactivator Tat is recruited to the HIV-1 promoter. In these cells we assessed the proviral chromatin composition simultaneously with the proviral activation. By linking the Tat promoter recruitment to viral activation, we dissected the mechanisms of HIV-1 reactivation and the consequences of HIV-1 production. A pulse of promoter-associated Tat was identified that contrasts to the continuous production of viral proteins. As expected, promoter H3K4me3 led to massive expression of the provirus following T cell stimulation. However, the activation induced cell cycle arrest and death resulted in an expanded surviving cell fraction with proviruses encapsulated in repressive chromatin. Further, this model can be used to reveal mechanisms of action of small molecules. In a proof-of-concept study we determine the effect of CBP/P300-inhibitor GNE049. We found that only active enhancers, associated with H3K4me1 and H3K27ac, efficiently recruit Tat, as GNE049 that specifically inhibits enhancer H3K27ac also depletes promoter Tat. Despite the absence of Tat, HIV-1 latency reversal still occurred. Single cell assessment of the chromatin composition of the latent HIV-1 proviruses revealed how T cell stimulation modulates the proviral activity and the subsequent fate of the infected cell.
2021-10-04 | GSE183275 | GEO
Project description:HIV-1 infection establishes a reservoir of long-lived cells with integrated proviral DNA that can persist despite antiretroviral therapy (ART). The mechanisms governing the transcriptional regulation of the provirus are complex and incompletely understood. Here, we investigated the role of histone H3 citrullination, a post-translational modification catalyzed by protein-arginine deiminase type-4 (PADI4), in HIV-1 transcription and latency. We found that PADI4 inhibition by GSK484 reduced HIV-1 transcription after T cell activation in ex vivo cultures of CD4 T cells from viremic and ART treated people living with HIV-1 (PLWH). The effect was more pronounced in the viremic group. Using cell models of HIV-1 latency, we showed that PADI4-mediated citrullination of histone H3 occurred at the HIV-1 promoter upon T cell stimulation which facilitated proviral transcription. HIV-1 preferentially integrated into genomic regions marked by H3 citrullination and these integrated proviruses were less prone to latency compared to those in non-citrullinated chromatin. Inhibiting PADI4 led to compaction of the HIV-1 promoter chromatin and an increase of HP1a-covered heterochromatin, in a mechanism partly dependent on the HUSH complex. Our data reveal a novel mechanism of HIV-1 transcriptional regulation by PADI4 through H3 citrullination.
2024-08-05 | GSE273899 | GEO
Project description:Integration of the HIV-1 provirus in the host genome ensures a persistent supply of latently infected cells. This latent reservoir is recalcitrant to antiretroviral therapy (ART) making lifelong treatment the only option for patients. The â??shock and killâ?? strategy aims to eradicate latent HIV by reactivating proviral gene expression followed by ART treatment. Gene specific transcriptional activation can be achieved using the RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 system comprising small guide RNAs (sgRNAs) with a nuclease deficient Cas9 mutant (dCas9) fused to the VP64 transactivation domain (dCas9-VP64).  We engineered this system to target 23 sites within the LTR promoter of HIV-1 and identified a â??hotspotâ?? for activation. We studied the functionality of activating sgRNAs to transcriptionally modulate the latent proviral genome across multiple different in vitro latency cell models including several J-Lat, ACH2 J1.1 and the CEM T cell model comprising a single clonal population of integrated mCherry-IRES-Tat from a full-length HIV LTR (LChIT). While we observed variable responses of latent cell models to well-characterized chemical stimuli, we detected consistent efficient activation of latent virus mediated by activator sgRNAs. In addition, transcriptome analysis of chemically treated cells revealed massive non-specific gene dysregulation whereas by comparison, dCas9-VP64/sgRNAs induced specific activation of the integrated provirus. In conclusion, we show the potential for CRISPR-mediated gene activation systems to provide enhanced efficiency and specificity in a targeted latency reactivation strategy. This represents a promising approach to a â??functional cureâ?? of HIV/AIDS. Three experimental conditions (sgRNA control, TNF treated and sgRNA against the LTR of HIV-1) were analyzed in triplicate using two sequencing lanes
2016-08-20 | E-GEOD-72259 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:During HIV infection, a latent viral reservoir is formed that persists during antiretroviral therapy (ART) and is maintained by a heritable state of transcriptional repression. Recent findings indicate that much of the reservoir originates from infections occurring in the weeks near the time of ART initiation, raising the important possibility that interventions during this period might prevent reservoir seeding and substantially reduce reservoir size. Based on this concept, we tested the ability of compounds that target epigenetic machinery to prevent the establishment of latent HIV infection in primary CD4 T cells. We identified class 1 histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) as potent agents of latency prevention, an activity distinct from latency reversal. Inhibiting HDACs in productively infected cells caused extended maintenance of HIV expression, even after HDACi withdrawal, and this activity was associated with persistently elevated H3K9 acetylation and reduced H3K9 methylation at the viral LTR promoter region. HDAC inhibition in HIV-infected CD4 T cells during effector-to-memory transition led to a striking change in the memory subset distribution indicating reprogramming of cell identity. Through knockout of individual HDACs and use of HDAC-selective inhibitors, we determined that HDAC1 and HDAC3 play crucial and distinct roles in proviral silencing initiation. Overall, this work indicates that a network of HDACs regulate a critical gateway process for HIV latency establishment and are required for the development of CD4 T-cell memory subsets that preferentially harbor long-lived, latent provirus. Epigenetic reprogramming by clinical targeting of HDACs during ART initiation may represent a novel way to prevent seeding of the HIV reservoir in vivo
2023-08-08 | GSE199946 | GEO
Project description:HIV-1 infects lymphoid and myeloid cells, which can harbor a latent proviral reservoir responsible for maintaining lifelong infection. Glycolytic metabolism has been identified as a determinant of susceptibility to HIV-1 infection, but its role in the development and maintenance of HIV-1 latency has not been elucidated. By combining transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic analysis, we here show that transition to latent HIV-1 infection downregulates glycolysis, while viral reactivation by conventional stimuli reverts this effect. Decreased glycolytic output in latently infected cells is associated with downregulation of NAD+/NADH. Consequently, infected cells rely on the parallel pentose phosphate pathway and its main product, the antioxidant NADPH, fueling antioxidant pathways maintaining HIV-1 latency. Of note, blocking NADPH downstream effectors, thioredoxin and glutathione, favors HIV-1 reactivation from latency in lymphoid and myeloid cellular models. This provides a “shock and kill effect” decreasing proviral DNA in cells from people-living-with-HIV/AIDS. Overall, our data show that downmodulation of glycolysis is a metabolic signature of HIV-1 latency that can be exploited to target latently infected cells with eradication strategies.
2021-06-16 | GSE163979 | GEO
Project description:Integration of the HIV-1 provirus in the host genome ensures a persistent supply of latently infected cells. This latent reservoir is recalcitrant to antiretroviral therapy (ART) making lifelong treatment the only option for patients. The “shock and kill” strategy aims to eradicate latent HIV by reactivating proviral gene expression followed by ART treatment. Gene specific transcriptional activation can be achieved using the RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 system comprising small guide RNAs (sgRNAs) with a nuclease deficient Cas9 mutant (dCas9) fused to the VP64 transactivation domain (dCas9-VP64). We engineered this system to target 23 sites within the LTR promoter of HIV-1 and identified a “hotspot” for activation. We studied the functionality of activating sgRNAs to transcriptionally modulate the latent proviral genome across multiple different in vitro latency cell models including several J-Lat, ACH2 J1.1 and the CEM T cell model comprising a single clonal population of integrated mCherry-IRES-Tat from a full-length HIV LTR (LChIT). While we observed variable responses of latent cell models to well-characterized chemical stimuli, we detected consistent efficient activation of latent virus mediated by activator sgRNAs. In addition, transcriptome analysis of chemically treated cells revealed massive non-specific gene dysregulation whereas by comparison, dCas9-VP64/sgRNAs induced specific activation of the integrated provirus. In conclusion, we show the potential for CRISPR-mediated gene activation systems to provide enhanced efficiency and specificity in a targeted latency reactivation strategy. This represents a promising approach to a “functional cure” of HIV/AIDS.
2016-08-20 | GSE72259 | GEO
Project description:Herein expression trends of host miRNA were measured in HIV-1 latently infected and persistent replication cells, as well as the control cells. HIV-1 latency infection was established by infecting CEM-SS lymphocytes with HIV-1 Bru strain. After selection and long-term culture, the chronically infected cell showed the characteristics of latency definition: 1. The provirus was intergrated in to the host genome.2. No viral expression could be detected during culture.3 .Cell stimulators, such as TNFa,PMA, etc, reactivate the viral expression. As expected, miRNA trend was different in HIV-1 latency when compared to the control or HIV-1 replication. A subset of miRNAs is enriched in HIV-1 latency model. The observation reinforces the concept of active HIV-1 interplay with host small RNAs that modulate HIV-1 infection mode. In this study, the in vitro steady cell culture was used to explore the miRNA transcription signatures in HIV-1 infection. miRNA profiles were performed and compared among normal control,HIV-1 latency and HIV-1 replication .
2012-12-01 | E-GEOD-38388 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:HIV-1 infection of resting memory CD4+ T cells forms a barrier to curing HIV-1. Identification of immune biomarkers that correlate with HIV-1 reservoir size could aid with assessing efficacy of HIV-1 eradication strategies, especially in pediatric infections where blood sampling is limited. In adults, the immune exhaustion marker PD-1 on central memory CD4+ T cells (Tcm) correlates with HIV-1 reservoir size. Immune correlates of HIV-1 reservoir size are less defined in perinatal infection. Using multi-parameter flow cytometry, we examined immune activation (CD69, CD25, HLA-DR), and exhaustion (PD-1, TIGIT, LAG-3 and TIM-3) markers on CD4+ T cell subsets (naïve (Tn), central memory (Tcm), and a combination (Ttem) of transitional (Ttm) and effector memory (Tem) in 10 children living with HIV-1 (median age 15.9 years; median duration of virologic suppression 7.0 years), in whom HIV-1 reservoir size was determined with both the Intact Proviral HIV-1 DNA assay (IPDA) and the Tat/Rev limiting dilution assay (TILDA). Total HIV-1 DNA in CD4+ T cells was also measured. Correlations between immune activation, and exhaustion markers on T cell subsets with the various markers of proviral reservoir size, and baseline CD4+ T cell transcriptomes were examined. The median total HIV-1 DNA concentration was 211.9 copies per million CD4+ T cells, with a median intact proviral load in individuals with HIV-1 subtype B of 8.0 copies per million CD4+ T cells. Levels of HLA-DR and TIGIT on Ttem were strongly correlated with total HIV-1 DNA (r=0.758, p=0.015) and (r=0.721, p=0.023), respectively, but not with intact proviral load or inducible reservoir size. HIV-1 DNA load was also positively correlated with transcriptional clusters associated with HLA-DR. In contrast, PD-1 expression on Tcm was inversely correlated with both total HIV-1 DNA (r=-0.67, p=0.039) and HLA-DR in Ttem (r=-0.89, p=0.060). Gene expression profiles for HLA-DR and PD-1 were also inversely correlated. In conclusion, with virologically suppressed perinatal HIV-1 infection, HLA-DR and TIGIT on Ttem CD4+ T cells correlate with total HIV-1 DNA, and may serve as immune biomarkers for transcriptionally active proviruses, including defectives persisting on ART.
2023-03-20 | GSE209828 | GEO
Project description:Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) is a lentivirus that causes a persistent viral infection and results in the demise of immune regulatory cells. Clearance of HIV-1 infection by the immune system is inefficient, and integration of proviral DNA into the genome of host cells provides a means for evasion and long-term persistence. A therapeutic compound that specifically targets and sustainably activates a latent HIV provirus could be transformative and is an overarching goal for the “shock and kill” approach to a functional cure for HIV. Substantial progress has been made towards the development of recombinant proteins that can target specific genomic loci for gene activation, repression or inactivation by directed mutations. However, most of these modalities are too large, or too complex, for efficient therapeutic application. We describe here the development and testing of a novel recombinant zinc finger protein transactivator, ZFPb-362-VPR, which specifically and potently enhances proviral HIV transcription both in established latency models and across different viral clades. Additionally, ZFP-362-VPR activated HIV reporter gene expression in a well-established primary human CD4+ T-cell latency model and was specific in targeting the HIV LTR as determined from off-target transcriptome analyses. This study provides clear proof of concept for the application of a novel, and therapeutically relevant, protein transactivator to purge cellular reservoirs of HIV-1.
2021-11-09 | GSE150382 | GEO
Project description:Understanding the complexity of the long-lived HIV reservoir during antiretroviral therapy (ART) remains a major impediment for HIV cure research. To address this, we developed single-cell viral ASAPseq to precisely define the unperturbed peripheral blood HIV-infected memory CD4+ T cell reservoir from antiretroviral treated people living with HIV (ART-PLWH) via the presence of integrated accessible proviral DNA in concert with epigenetic and cell surface protein profiling. We identified profound reservoir heterogeneity within and between ART-PLWH, characterized by novel and known surface markers within total and individual memory CD4+ T cell subsets. We further uncovered novel epigenetic profiles and transcription factor motifs enriched in HIV-infected cells that suggest infected cells with accessible provirus, irrespective of reservoir distribution, are poised for reactivation during ART treatment. Together, our findings reveal the extensive inter- and intrapersonal cellular heterogeneity of the HIV reservoir, and establish an initial multiomic atlas to develop targeted reservoir elimination strategies.
2022-10-21 | GSE199727 | GEO