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ArticleCell reports2018

Cell Size-Based Decision-Making of a Viral Gene Circuit.

Kathrin Bohn-Wippert, Erin N Tevonian, Yiyang Lu, Meng-Yao Huang, Melina R Megaridis, Roy D Dar

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Article in Cell reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Advances in Single-Cell Sequencing for Infectious Diseases: Progress and Perspectives.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  5. Screening for gene expression fluctuations reveals latency-promoting agents of HIV.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  6. Cell size dependent migration of T-cells latently infected with HIV.Journal of life sciences (Westlake Village, Calif.) · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Kathrin Bohn-WippertDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 321 Everitt Laboratory, 1406 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Erin N TevonianDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 321 Everitt Laboratory, 1406 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Yiyang LuDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 321 Everitt Laboratory, 1406 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Meng-Yao HuangCenter for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Melina R MegaridisDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 321 Everitt Laboratory, 1406 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Roy D DarDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 321 Everitt Laboratory, 1406 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 306 North Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Electronic address: roydar@illinois.edu.

Funding

Screening for modulators of Tat positive feedback for biasing HIV latencyK22AI120746 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI DAR, ROY DAVID · 2015 to 2016
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NIAID NIH HHS K22 AI120746
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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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Cell SizeGene Regulatory NetworksGenes, ViralCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCell CycleCells, CulturedGene Expression RegulationHIV-1HumansModels, BiologicalPromoter Regions, GeneticTerminal Repeat SequencesVirus ActivationVirus Latency

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PMID30590053
PMCPMC7050911

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