This study advances understanding of how human immune defenses respond to HIV infection. Using computational reanalysis of three publicly available datasets covering gene expression, single-cell immune profiling, and protein responses, the study examined how HIV restriction factors vary across clinical states, immune-cell types, and molecular responses.

The findings revealed that antiviral restriction activity was strongly linked to interferon and innate immune responses in untreated HIV infection. The analysis also identified enrichment of core HIV restriction factors in natural killer (NK) cells and demonstrated that selected antiviral proteins showed different patterns of induction and depletion during HIV infection.

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