Targeting the latent reservoir for HIV-1

S Sengupta, RF Siliciano - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
Antiretroviral therapy can effectively block HIV-1 replication and prevent or reverse
immunodeficiency in HIV-1-infected individuals. However, viral replication resumes within …

Novel latency reversal agents for HIV-1 cure

AM Spivak, V Planelles - Annual review of medicine, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has rendered HIV-1 infection a treatable illness; however, ART
is not curative owing to the persistence of replication-competent, latent proviruses in long …

Bispecific antibodies promote natural killer cell-mediated elimination of HIV-1 reservoir cells

NL Board, Z Yuan, F Wu, M Moskovljevic, M Ravi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The persistence of CD4+ T cells carrying latent human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1)
proviruses is the main barrier to a cure. New therapeutics to enhance HIV-1-specific immune …

Interferon Alpha Enhances NK Cell Function and the Suppressive Capacity of HIV-Specific CD8+ T Cells

AKR Kwaa, CAG Talana, JN Blankson - Journal of virology, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Current shock-and-kill strategies for the eradication of the HIV-1 reservoir have resulted in
blips of viremia but not in a decrease in the size of the latent reservoir in patients on …

Analyzing the systems biology effects of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to assess their safety and putative side effects

R Hajjo, DA Sabbah, A Tropsha - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 vaccines have been instrumental tools in reducing the impact of SARS-CoV-2
infections around the world by preventing 80% to 90% of hospitalizations and deaths from …

TCR-mimic bispecific antibodies to target the HIV-1 reservoir

S Sengupta, NL Board, F Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
HIV-1 infection is incurable due to the persistence of the virus in a latent reservoir of resting
memory CD4+ T cells.“Shock-and-kill” approaches that seek to induce HIV-1 gene …

The role of ingenane diterpenes in cancer therapy: From bioactive secondary compounds to small molecules

ALV Alves, LS da Silva, CA Faleiros… - Natural Product …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Diterpenes are a class of critical taxonomic markers of the Euphorbiaceae family,
representing small compounds (eg, molecules) with a wide range of biological activities and …

Broad-spectrum and personalized guide RNAs for CRISPR/Cas9 HIV-1 therapeutics

W Dampier, NT Sullivan, JC Mell, V Pirrone… - AIDS research and …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated Cas9
system has been used to excise the HIV-1 proviral genome from latently infected cells …

Diverse impacts of HIV latency-reversing agents on CD8+ T-cell function: implications for HIV cure

GT Clutton, RB Jones - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Antiretroviral therapy regimens durably suppress HIV replication, but do not cure infection.
This is partially attributable to the persistence of long-lived pools of resting CD4+ T-cells …

Tackling HIV persistence: pharmacological versus CRISPR-based shock strategies

G Darcis, AT Das, B Berkhout - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
Jan Svoboda studied aspects of viral latency, in particular with respect to disease induction
by avian RNA tumor viruses, which were later renamed as part of the extended retrovirus …