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Abstract
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a prevalent β-herpesvirus that persists asymptomatically in immunocompetent hosts. In people with HIV-1 (PWH), CMV is associated with HIV-1 persistence and particular inflammatory-related co-morbidities. The true causative role of CMV in HIV-associated pathologies however remains unclear given that nearly all PWH are coinfected with CMV. In this study, we examined acute phase immune and virological dynamics in cohorts of SIV-infected rhesus macaques (RMs) that were naturally seropositive or -negative for rhesus CMV (RhCMV). We observed prior to SIV, RhCMV expanded a polyclonal population of target CCR5+CD4+ T cells in gut and lymph nodes (LN) that expressed the chemotactic receptor CXCR3 and were largely not specific for RhCMV. Upon SIV infection, RhCMV+ RMs exhibited higher peak viremia and elevated levels of SIV DNA in the upper and lower intestine. Greater seeding of SIV DNA was associated with a maintenance of CCR5-expressing CD4+ T cells that were enriched within the RhCMV+ gut along a CXCR3-CXCL9 chemotactic axis. Overall, the data suggest that RhCMV can promote SIV susceptibility within a diverse, polyclonal pool of CD4 T cells that are not entirely RhCMV-specific.
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Chrysostomos Perdios, Naveen Suresh Babu, Celeste D. Coleman, Anna T. Brown, Shevon N. Alexander, Matilda J. Moström, Carolina Allers, Lara Doyle-Meyers, Christine M. Fennessey, Lori A. Rowe, Brandon F. Keele, Amitinder Kaur, Michael L. Freeman, Joseph C. Mudd
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