“…The HIV life cycle could end with cell death of infected cells or by HIV-1 Env-mediated cell death of uninfected bystander cells (Mohammadi et al, 2013;Cummins and Badley, 2014;Doitsh and Greene, 2016;Li et al, 2020) which occurs during early infection (Espert et al, 2008(Espert et al, , 2009. Hence, one of the most relevant HIV-1 modulators of cell death is the Env glycoprotein (Krüger et al, 1996;Blanco et al, 2001;Vlahakis et al, 2001;Blumenthal, 2006, 2008;Varbanov et al, 2006;Garg et al, 2009;Sivaraman et al, 2009;Gorry and Ancuta, 2011;Cicala et al, 2016;Joshi et al, 2016;Tsao et al, 2016;Evering, 2018;Daussy et al, 2020).…”