Viral-host dependency factors as therapeutic targets to overcome antiviral drug-resistance: a focus on innate immune modulation

R Badia, E Garcia-Vidal, E Ballana - Frontiers in Virology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The development of antiviral drugs, has provided enormous achievements in our recent
history in the fight against viral infections. To date, most of the approved antiviral drugs target …

HibeRNAtion: HIV-1 RNA metabolism and viral latency

R Crespo, S Rao, T Mahmoudi - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
HIV-1 infection remains non-curative due to the latent reservoir, primarily a small pool of
resting memory CD4+ T cells bearing replication-competent provirus. Pharmacological …

[HTML][HTML] PCID2 dysregulates transcription and viral RNA processing to promote HIV-1 latency

R Crespo, E Ne, J Reinders, JIJ Meier, C Li, S Jansen… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
HIV-1 latency results from tightly regulated molecular processes that act at distinct steps of
HIV-1 gene expression. Here, we characterize PCI domain-containing 2 (PCID2) protein, a …

Catchet-MS identifies IKZF1-targeting thalidomide analogues as novel HIV-1 latency reversal agents

E Ne, R Crespo, R Izquierdo-Lara, S Rao… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A major pharmacological strategy toward HIV cure aims to reverse latency in infected cells
as a first step leading to their elimination. While the unbiased identification of molecular …