CD4 and HIV-1 infection: This could also explain the minimal effect of VX-765 on CD4 +T cell depletion as compared to previous results obtained in vitro by Doitsh et al., 2014 HIV-1 infection is associated with programmed cell death, and NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated immune T cell depletion was nevertheless shown here by different correlations with the dowstream pathways of NLRP3.