PMID- 36302893 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230102 LR - 20230315 IS - 1546-170X (Electronic) IS - 1078-8956 (Linking) VI - 28 IP - 12 DP - 2022 Dec TI - Safety, immunogenicity and effect on viral rebound of HTI vaccines in early treated HIV-1 infection: a randomized, placebo-controlled phase 1 trial. PG - 2611-2621 LID - 10.1038/s41591-022-02060-2 [doi] AB - HIVACAT T-cell immunogen (HTI) is a novel human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vaccine immunogen designed to elicit cellular immune responses to HIV targets associated with viral control in humans. The AELIX-002 trial was a randomized, placebo-controlled trial to evaluate as a primary objective the safety of a combination of DNA.HTI (D), MVA.HTI (M) and ChAdOx1.HTI (C) vaccines in 45 early-antiretroviral (ART)-treated individuals (44 men, 1 woman; NCT03204617). Secondary objectives included T-cell immunogenicity, the effect on viral rebound and the safety of an antiretroviral treatment interruption (ATI). Adverse events were mostly mild and transient. No related serious adverse events were observed. We show here that HTI vaccines were able to induce strong, polyfunctional and broad CD4 and CD8 T-cell responses. All participants experienced detectable viral rebound during ATI, and resumed ART when plasma HIV-1 viral load reached either >100,000 copies ml(-1), >10,000 copies ml(-1) for eight consecutive weeks, or after 24 weeks of ATI. In post-hoc analyses, HTI vaccines were associated with a prolonged time off ART in vaccinees without beneficial HLA (human leukocyte antigen) class I alleles. Plasma viral load at the end of ATI and time off ART positively correlated with vaccine-induced HTI-specific T-cell responses at ART cessation. Despite limited efficacy of the vaccines in preventing viral rebound, their ability to elicit robust T-cell responses towards HTI may be beneficial in combination cure strategies, which are currently being tested in clinical trials. CI - (c) 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc. FAU - Bailon, Lucia AU - Bailon L AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7277-9314 AD - Fundacio Lluita Contra les Infeccions, Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. AD - Department of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. FAU - Llano, Anuska AU - Llano A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0133-9888 AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Cedeno, Samandhy AU - Cedeno S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8312-0208 AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Escriba, Tuixent AU - Escriba T AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9467-7802 AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Rosas-Umbert, Miriam AU - Rosas-Umbert M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2850-6586 AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. AD - Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. FAU - Parera, Mariona AU - Parera M AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Casadella, Maria AU - Casadella M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4115-2305 AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Lopez, Miriam AU - Lopez M AD - Fundacio Lluita Contra les Infeccions, Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Perez, Francisco AU - Perez F AD - Fundacio Lluita Contra les Infeccions, Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Oriol-Tordera, Bruna AU - Oriol-Tordera B AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2714-9097 AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Ruiz-Riol, Marta AU - Ruiz-Riol M AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. AD - CIBERINFEC, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain. FAU - Coll, Josep AU - Coll J AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. AD - CIBERINFEC, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain. AD - Projecte Dels Noms-Hispanosida, Bcn Checkpoint, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Perez, Felix AU - Perez F AD - Projecte Dels Noms-Hispanosida, Bcn Checkpoint, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Rivero, Angel AU - Rivero A AD - Projecte Dels Noms-Hispanosida, Bcn Checkpoint, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Leselbaum, Anne R AU - Leselbaum AR AD - Projecte Dels Noms-Hispanosida, Bcn Checkpoint, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - McGowan, Ian AU - McGowan I AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6470-8476 AD - AELIX Therapeutics S.L, Barcelona, Spain. AD - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. FAU - Sengupta, Devi AU - Sengupta D AD - Gilead Sciences, Inc, Foster City, CA, USA. FAU - Wee, Edmund G AU - Wee EG AD - The Jenner Institute, The Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. FAU - Hanke, Tomas AU - Hanke T AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6076-9546 AD - The Jenner Institute, The Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. AD - Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. FAU - Paredes, Roger AU - Paredes R AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6553-691X AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. AD - CIBERINFEC, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain. AD - Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CESS), Faculty of Medicine. University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic - UCC), Vic, Barcelona, Spain. AD - Germans Trias I Pujol Research Institte, Badalona, Spain. FAU - Alarcon-Soto, Yovaninna AU - Alarcon-Soto Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9977-8634 AD - Fundacio Lluita Contra les Infeccions, Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. AD - Departament d'Estadistica I Investigacio Operativa, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya/BARCELONATECH, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Clotet, Bonaventura AU - Clotet B AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3232-4598 AD - Fundacio Lluita Contra les Infeccions, Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. AD - CIBERINFEC, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain. AD - Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CESS), Faculty of Medicine. University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic - UCC), Vic, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Noguera-Julian, Marc AU - Noguera-Julian M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6194-1395 AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. AD - CIBERINFEC, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain. AD - Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CESS), Faculty of Medicine. University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic - UCC), Vic, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Brander, Christian AU - Brander C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0548-5778 AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. AD - CIBERINFEC, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain. AD - AELIX Therapeutics S.L, Barcelona, Spain. AD - Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CESS), Faculty of Medicine. University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic - UCC), Vic, Barcelona, Spain. AD - ICREA, Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Molto, Jose AU - Molto J AD - Fundacio Lluita Contra les Infeccions, Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. jmolto@lluita.org. AD - CIBERINFEC, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain. jmolto@lluita.org. AD - Germans Trias I Pujol Research Institte, Badalona, Spain. jmolto@lluita.org. FAU - Mothe, Beatriz AU - Mothe B AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9975-407X AD - Fundacio Lluita Contra les Infeccions, Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. AD - IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. AD - CIBERINFEC, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain. AD - Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CESS), Faculty of Medicine. University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic - UCC), Vic, Barcelona, Spain. AD - Germans Trias I Pujol Research Institte, Badalona, Spain. CN - AELIX002 Study Group LA - eng SI - ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT03204617 GR - MR/N023668/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom GR - P01 AI131568/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States PT - Clinical Trial, Phase I PT - Journal Article PT - Randomized Controlled Trial PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20221027 PL - United States TA - Nat Med JT - Nature medicine JID - 9502015 RN - 0 (Anti-Retroviral Agents) RN - 0 (Vaccines) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class I) RN - 0 (AIDS Vaccines) SB - IM MH - Male MH - Female MH - Humans MH - *HIV-1 MH - *HIV Infections MH - CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes MH - Anti-Retroviral Agents/therapeutic use MH - *Vaccines/therapeutic use MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class I MH - Viral Load MH - CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes MH - *AIDS Vaccines FIR - Barriocanal, Ana Maria IR - Barriocanal AM FIR - Benet, Susana IR - Benet S FIR - Cobarsi, Patricia IR - Cobarsi P FIR - Geleziunas, Romas IR - Geleziunas R FIR - Leselbaum, Anne R IR - Leselbaum AR FIR - Loste, Cora IR - Loste C FIR - Meulbroek, Michael IR - Meulbroek M FIR - Miranda, Cristina IR - Miranda C FIR - Munoz, Jose IR - Munoz J FIR - Naval, Jordi IR - Naval J FIR - Nieto, Aroa IR - Nieto A FIR - Pujol, Ferran IR - Pujol F FIR - Puig, Jordi IR - Puig J EDAT- 2022/10/28 06:00 MHDA- 2023/01/03 06:00 CRDT- 2022/10/27 23:38 PHST- 2021/11/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/09/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/10/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/01/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/10/27 23:38 [entrez] AID - 10.1038/s41591-022-02060-2 [pii] AID - 10.1038/s41591-022-02060-2 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Nat Med. 2022 Dec;28(12):2611-2621. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-02060-2. Epub 2022 Oct 27.