Steven Yukl, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF and VA Medical Center
Professor, School of Medicine
Email: steven.yukl@ucsf.edu
Biography
Dr. Steven Yukl is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a staff physician at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. His research focuses on the mechanisms that allow HIV to persist despite immune defenses and current antiviral therapies. In addition to HIV-induced immune dysfunction, these barriers to HIV cure include the ability of HIV to establish a reversibly-silent ("latent") infection in some CD4+ T cells, the persistence of larger numbers of infected cells in the tissues, and the possibility that HIV medicines do not stop all viral replication. The goals of current research include: 1) to determine the mechanisms that govern latent HIV infection in the blood and tissues; 2) to measure the degree to which different therapies reverse HIV latency and lead to death of HIV-infected cells in vivo; and 3) to identify the best model for testing new therapies and combinations designed to disrupt latent HIV infection.
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- S. Moron-Lopez, I. Sarabia, E. Battivelli, M. Montano, S. Telwatte, A. Bosque, E. Verdin, W. Greene, J.K. Wong, S.A. Yukl. 12 In-depth transcription profile comparison of multiple primary cell HIV latency models. Journal of virus eradication. 2019 Jul 1; 5:9.
- S. Moron-Lopez, S. Bernal, J.M. Steens, J.K. Wong, J. Martinez-Picado, S.A. Yukl. OP 8.3 Intensification of ART with ABX464 decreases the total HIV reservoir and HIV transcription initiation in CD4 T cells from HIV-infected ART-suppressed individuals. Journal of virus eradication. 2019 Dec 1; 5:49.
- Moron-Lopez S, Kim P, Søgaard OS, Tolstrup M, Wong JK, Yukl SA. Characterization of the HIV-1 transcription profile after romidepsin administration in ART-suppressed individuals. AIDS. 2019 Mar 01; 33(3):425-431.
- Telwatte S, Lee S, Somsouk M, Hatano H, Baker C, Kaiser P, Kim P, Chen TH, Milush J, Hunt PW, Deeks SG, Wong JK, Yukl SA. Gut and blood differ in constitutive blocks to HIV transcription, suggesting tissue-specific differences in the mechanisms that govern HIV latency. PLoS Pathog. 2018 Nov; 14(11):e1007357.
- Yukl SA, Kaiser P, Kim P, Telwatte S, Joshi SK, Vu M, Lampiris H, Wong JK. HIV latency in isolated patient CD4+ T cells may be due to blocks in HIV transcriptional elongation, completion, and splicing. Sci Transl Med. 2018 Feb 28; 10(430).
- Jiang G, Nguyen D, Archin NM, Yukl SA, Méndez-Lagares G, Tang Y, Elsheikh MM, Thompson GR, Hartigan-O'Connor DJ, Margolis DM, Wong JK, Dandekar S. HIV latency is reversed by ACSS2-driven histone crotonylation. J Clin Invest. 2018 Mar 01; 128(3):1190-1198.
- Anna Cereseto, Yuntao Wu, Jan Davidson-Moncada, Thomas S. Uldrick, Joel Palefsky, Steven A. Yukl, Joseph K. Wong, Shokouh Makvandi-Nejad, Courtney V. Fletcher, Anthony T. Podany, Andrea Calcagno, C. William Wester, Francoise Brun-Vezinet, Sophie Matheron, Diane Descamps, Sima S. Toussi, Michael Rosenberg, Harjot K. Singh, Marshall J. Glesby, Charles Muiruri, Habib R. Omar, John A. Bartlett, Camille Libre, Julien Batisse, Santiago Guerrero, Roland Marquet, Jean-Christophe Paillart, Mark Spear, Yuntao Wu, Christina Karsten, Stefan Pöhlmann, Laure Papin, Coralie F. Daussy, Jamal Alfaisal, Lucile Espert, Fabien P. Blanchet, Julià Blanco, Martine Biard-Piechaczyk. Acetylation. . 2018 Jan 1; 1-6.
- Steven A. Yukl, Joseph K. Wong. Anatomic Compartments as a Barrier to HIV Cure. Encyclopedia of AIDS. 2018 Jan 1; 32-55.
- S. Telwatte, S. Lee, M. Somsouk, H. Hatano, C. Baker, P. Kim, T.-H. Chen, J. Milush, P. Hunt, S. Deeks, J.K. Wong, S.A. Yukl. OP4.6 Gut and blood differ in mechanisms governing HIV transcription/latency. Journal of virus eradication. 2017 Dec 1; 3:22.
- Henrich TJ, Hatano H, Bacon O, Hogan LE, Rutishauser R, Hill A, Kearney MF, Anderson EM, Buchbinder SP, Cohen SE, Abdel-Mohsen M, Pohlmeyer CW, Fromentin R, Hoh R, Liu AY, McCune JM, Spindler J, Metcalf-Pate K, Hobbs KS, Thanh C, Gibson EA, Kuritzkes DR, Siliciano RF, Price RW, Richman DD, Chomont N, Siliciano JD, Mellors JW, Yukl SA, Blankson JN, Liegler T, Deeks SG. HIV-1 persistence following extremely early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) during acute HIV-1 infection: An observational study. PLoS Med. 2017 Nov; 14(11):e1002417.
- Trapecar M, Khan S, Roan NR, Chen TH, Telwatte S, Deswal M, Pao M, Somsouk M, Deeks SG, Hunt PW, Yukl S, Sanjabi S. An Optimized and Validated Method for Isolation and Characterization of Lymphocytes from HIV+ Human Gut Biopsies. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2017 Nov; 33(S1):S31-S39.
- Khan S, Telwatte S, Trapecar M, Yukl S, Sanjabi S. Differentiating Immune Cell Targets in Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissue for HIV Cure. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2017 Nov; 33(S1):S40-S58.
- Cockerham LR, Yukl SA, Harvill K, Somsouk M, Joshi SK, Sinclair E, Liegler T, Hoh R, Lyons S, Hunt PW, Rupert A, Sereti I, Morcock DR, Rhodes A, Emson C, Hellerstein MK, Estes JD, Lewin S, Deeks SG, Hatano H. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Lisinopril to Decrease Lymphoid Fibrosis in Antiretroviral-Treated, HIV-infected Individuals. Pathog Immun. 2017; 2(3):310-334.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25450638
- Koelsch KK, Rasmussen TA, Hey-Nguyen WJ, Pearson C, Xu Y, Bailey M, Marks KH, Sasson SC, Taylor MS, Tantau R, Obeid S, Milner B, Morrissey O, Pinto AN, Suzuki K, Busch MP, Keating SM, Kaiser P, Yukl S, Wong JK, Hiener BM, Palmer S, Zaunders J, Post JJ, Chan DJ, Avery S, Milliken ST, Kelleher AD, Lewin SR, Cooper DA. Impact of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation on the HIV Reservoir and Immune Response in 3 HIV-Infected Individuals. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2017 07 01; 75(3):328-337.
- Sushama Telwatte, Steven A Yukl. Exploring HIV latency using transcription profiling. Microbiology Australia. 2017 Jan 1.
- Kaiser P, Joshi SK, Kim P, Li P, Liu H, Rice AP, Wong JK, Yukl SA. Assays for precise quantification of total (including short) and elongated HIV-1 transcripts. J Virol Methods. 2017 04; 242:1-8.
- Lee SA, Bacchetti P, Chomont N, Fromentin R, Lewin SR, O'Doherty U, Palmer S, Richman DD, Siliciano JD, Yukl SA, Deeks SG, Burbelo PD. Anti-HIV Antibody Responses and the HIV Reservoir Size during Antiretroviral Therapy. PLoS One. 2016; 11(8):e0160192.
- Wong JK, Yukl SA. Tissue reservoirs of HIV. Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 2016 07; 11(4):362-70.
- Li P, Kaiser P, Lampiris HW, Kim P, Yukl SA, Havlir DV, Greene WC, Wong JK. Stimulating the RIG-I pathway to kill cells in the latent HIV reservoir following viral reactivation. Nat Med. 2016 07; 22(7):807-11.
- Yukl SA, Shergill AK, Girling V, Li Q, Killian M, Epling L, Li P, Kaiser P, Haase A, Havlir DV, McQuaid K, Sinclair E, Wong JK. Site-specific differences in T cell frequencies and phenotypes in the blood and gut of HIV-uninfected and ART-treated HIV+ adults. PLoS One. 2015; 10(3):e0121290.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23435301
- Steven A. Yukl, Joseph K. Wong. Anatomic Compartments as a Barrier to HIV Cure. Encyclopedia of AIDS. 2015 Jan 1; 1-29.
- Cockerham LR, Siliciano JD, Sinclair E, O'Doherty U, Palmer S, Yukl SA, Strain MC, Chomont N, Hecht FM, Siliciano RF, Richman DD, Deeks SG. CD4+ and CD8+ T cell activation are associated with HIV DNA in resting CD4+ T cells. PLoS One. 2014; 9(10):e110731.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22536001
- Li P, Fujimoto K, Bourguingnon L, Yukl S, Deeks S, Wong JK. Exogenous and endogenous hyaluronic acid reduces HIV infection of CD4(+) T cells. Immunol Cell Biol. 2014 Oct; 92(9):770-80.
- Wang C, Abdel-Mohsen M, Strain MC, Lada SM, Yukl S, Cockerham LR, Pilcher CD, Hecht FM, Sinclair E, Liegler T, Richman DD, Deeks SG, Pillai SK. Decreased HIV type 1 transcription in CCR5-?32 heterozygotes during suppressive antiretroviral therapy. J Infect Dis. 2014 Dec 01; 210(11):1838-43.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21701594
- Yukl SA, Kaiser P, Kim P, Li P, Wong JK. Advantages of using the QIAshredder instead of restriction digestion to prepare DNA for droplet digital PCR. Biotechniques. 2014; 56(4):194-6.