PMID- 35572502 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220519 LR - 20230519 IS - 1664-3224 (Electronic) IS - 1664-3224 (Linking) VI - 13 DP - 2022 TI - Learning to Be Elite: Lessons From HIV-1 Controllers and Animal Models on Trained Innate Immunity and Virus Suppression. PG - 858383 LID - 10.3389/fimmu.2022.858383 [doi] LID - 858383 AB - Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) has drastically changed the lives of people living with human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1), long-term treatment has been associated with a vast array of comorbidities. Therefore, a cure for HIV-1 remains the best option to globally eradicate HIV-1/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). However, development of strategies to achieve complete eradication of HIV-1 has been extremely challenging. Thus, the control of HIV-1 replication by the host immune system, namely functional cure, has long been studied as an alternative approach for HIV-1 cure. HIV-1 elite controllers (ECs) are rare individuals who naturally maintain undetectable HIV-1 replication levels in the absence of ART and whose immune repertoire might be a desirable blueprint for a functional cure. While the role(s) played by distinct human leukocyte antigen (HLA) expression and CD8+ T cell responses expressing cognate ligands in controlling HIV-1 has been widely characterized in ECs, the innate immune phenotype has been decidedly understudied. Comparably, in animal models such as HIV-1-infected humanized mice and simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV)-infected non-human primates (NHP), viremic control is known to be associated with specific major histocompatibility complex (MHC) alleles and CD8+ T cell activity, but the innate immune response remains incompletely characterized. Notably, recent work demonstrating the existence of trained innate immunity may provide new complementary approaches to achieve an HIV-1 cure. Herein, we review the known characteristics of innate immune responses in ECs and available animal models, identify gaps of knowledge regarding responses by adaptive or trained innate immune cells, and speculate on potential strategies to induce EC-like responses in HIV-1 non-controllers. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Sugawara, Reeves and Jost. FAU - Sugawara, Sho AU - Sugawara S AD - Division of Innate and Comparative Immunology, Center for Human Systems Immunology, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States. FAU - Reeves, R Keith AU - Reeves RK AD - Division of Innate and Comparative Immunology, Center for Human Systems Immunology, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States. FAU - Jost, Stephanie AU - Jost S AD - Division of Innate and Comparative Immunology, Center for Human Systems Immunology, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States. LA - eng GR - R01 AI116363/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - UM1 AI164570/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AI120828/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AI161010/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 AI162242/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20220427 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Immunol JT - Frontiers in immunology JID - 101560960 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - *HIV Infections MH - *HIV-1 MH - Humans MH - Immunity, Innate MH - Mice MH - Models, Animal MH - Viremia PMC - PMC9094575 OTO - NOTNLM OT - HIV OT - NHP models OT - NK cells OT - elite controllers (ECs) OT - innate immunity OT - trained immunity COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2022/05/17 06:00 MHDA- 2022/05/20 06:00 PMCR- 2022/01/01 CRDT- 2022/05/16 04:14 PHST- 2022/01/19 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/03/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/05/16 04:14 [entrez] PHST- 2022/05/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/05/20 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fimmu.2022.858383 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Immunol. 2022 Apr 27;13:858383. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.858383. eCollection 2022.