<i>In vitro</i> HIV suppression assay.

<p><b>(A)</b><i>In vitro</i> HIV suppression assay mediated by <i>ex vivo</i> unstimulated CD8⁺ T cells in VC (N = 10, filled circle), NC (N = 10, open rectangle), and healthy volunteers (HD, N = 9, filled triangle) cocultured with autologous HIV-infected CD4⁺ T cells at E:T ratio of 1:1 at day 7. <b>(B)</b><i>In vitro</i> HIV suppression assay mediated by HIVp24-specific T cell lines from VC (N = 4, filled circle) and NC (N = 7, open rectangle) cocultured with autologous HIV-infected CD4⁺ T cells at E:T ratio of 1:1 at day 3. <b>(C)</b> Percentages of <i>ex vivo</i> HIV-infected CD4⁺ T cells (CD3^posCD8^negP24^pos) in VC (N = 8, filled circle) and NC (N = 13, open rectangle) <b>(D)</b> Production of newly-generated HIV from CD4⁺ T cells from VC (N = 5, filled circle) and NC (N = 5, open rectangle) at day 7. The Y-axis depicts the concentration of HIVp24 Ag (pg/ml) from ELISA assays. *p value <0.05 and ***p value<0.001.