The experimentalist's guide to machine learning for small molecule design

SE Lindley, Y Lu, D Shukla - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
Initially part of the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning (ML) has become a
booming research area since branching out into its own field in the 1990s. After three …

Transcriptional stochasticity as a key aspect of HIV-1 latency

A Damour, V Slaninova, O Radulescu, E Bertrand… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review summarizes current advances in the role of transcriptional stochasticity in HIV-1
latency, which were possible in a large part due to the development of single-cell …

Nonmonotone invasion landscape by noise-aware control of metastasis activator levels

Y Wan, J Cohen, M Szenk, KS Farquhar… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
A major pharmacological assumption is that lowering disease-promoting protein levels is
generally beneficial. For example, inhibiting metastasis activator BACH1 is proposed to …

Shock-and-kill versus block-and-lock: Targeting the fluctuating and heterogeneous HIV-1 gene expression

YHJ Yeh, YC Ho - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Despite effective antiretroviral therapy, HIV-1 persistence in the latent reservoir remains the
major barrier to cure. Current strategies for HIV-1 eradication require either inducing HIV-1 …

An evaluation on the role of non-coding RNA in HIV transcription and latency: a review

PW Ramirez, C Pantoja… - HIV/AIDS-Research and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The existence of latent cellular reservoirs is recognized as the major barrier to an HIV cure.
Reactivating and eliminating “shock and kill” or permanently silencing “block and lock” the …

Monocyte to macrophage differentiation and changes in cellular redox homeostasis promote cell type-specific HIV latency reactivation

A Blanco, RA Coronado, N Arun, K Ma… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
HIV latency regulation in monocytes and macrophages can vary according to signals
directing differentiation, polarization, and function. To investigate these processes, we …

HIV-1 Proviral Genome Engineering with CRISPR-Cas9 for Mechanistic Studies

U Hyder, A Shukla, A Challa, I D'Orso - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
HIV-1 latency remains a barrier to a functional cure because of the ability of virtually silent
yet inducible proviruses within reservoir cells to transcriptionally reactivate upon cell …

Inhibition of salt inducible kinases reduces rhythmic HIV-1 replication and reactivation from latency

H Borrmann, D Ismed, AE Kliszczak… - Journal of General …, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) causes a major burden on global health, and
eradication of latent virus infection is one of the biggest challenges in the field. The circadian …

Tannic acid reactivates HIV-1 latency by mediating CBX4 degradation

C Chen, Z Zhong, W Zhang, B Xia, L Wu… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT HIV-1 can integrate viral DNA into host cell chromosomes and establish a long-
term stable latent viral reservoir, a major obstacle in curing HIV-1 infection. The reactivation …

Toward a Functional Cure for HIV-1 Infection: The Block and Lock therapeutic Approach

B Vargas, N Sluis-Cremer - Frontiers in Virology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The persistence of latent, replication-competent HIV-1 proviruses in resting CD4+ T cells,
and other cellular reservoirs, represents a major barrier to a cure. This reservoir is …