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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

Mechanisms for Cell-to-Cell Transmission of HIV-1.

Lucie Bracq, Maorong Xie, Serge Benichou, Jérôme Bouchet

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 116 papers.

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116citing papers in PubMed
11.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

116 citing papers in PubMed, 183 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Lucie BracqInserm U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France.
Maorong XieInserm U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France.
Serge BenichouInserm U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France.
Jérôme BouchetInserm U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France.
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNDélégation Paris 5 · FRInstitut Cochin · FRUniversité Paris Cité · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While HIV-1 infection of target cells with cell-free viral particles has been largely documented, intercellular transmission through direct cell-to-cell contact may be a predominant mode of propagation in host. To spread, HIV-1 infects cells of the immune system and takes advantage of their specific particularities and functions. Subversion of intercellular communication allows to improve HIV-1 replication through a multiplicity of intercellular structures and membrane protrusions, like tunneling nanotubes, filopodia, or lamellipodia-like structures involved in the formation of the virological synapse. Other features of immune cells, like the immunological synapse or the phagocytosis of infected cells are hijacked by HIV-1 and used as gateways to infect target cells. Finally, HIV-1 reuses its fusogenic capacity to provoke fusion between infected donor cells and target cells, and to form infected syncytia with high capacity of viral production and improved capacities of motility or survival. All these modes of cell-to-cell transfer are now considered as viral mechanisms to escape immune system and antiretroviral therapies, and could be involved in the establishment of persistent virus reservoirs in different host tissues.

Indexed as

AnimalsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesDisease ReservoirsHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansImmune EvasionImmunological SynapsesIntercellular JunctionsMembrane FusionNanotubesPseudopodiacell-to-cell transferdendritic cellsHIV-1macrophagesT cells

Identifiers

PMID29515578
PMCPMC5825902
OpenAlexW2792882465

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