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CELL REPORTS
Volume 25, Issue 13, Pages 3844-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.12.009
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- Cancer Scholars Program at the UIUC
- NIH NIAID [AI120746]
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Latently infected T cells able to reinitiate viral propagation throughout the body remain a major barrier to curing HIV. Distinguishing between latently infected cells and uninfected cells will advance efforts for viral eradication. HIV decision-making between latency and active replication is stochastic, and drug cocktails that increase bursts of viral gene expression enhance reactivation from latency. Here, we show that a larger host-cell size provides a natural cellular mechanism for enhancing burst size of viral expression and is necessary to destabilize the latent state and bias viral decision-making. Latently infected Jurkat and primary CD4+ T cells reactivate exclusively in larger activated cells, while smaller cells remain silent. In addition, reactivation is cell-cycle dependent and can be modulated with cell-cycle-arresting compounds. Cell size and cell-cycle dependent decision-making of viral circuits may guide stochastic design strategies and applications in synthetic biology and may provide important determinants to advance diagnostics and therapies.
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