Research priorities for an HIV cure: international AIDS society global scientific strategy 2021

SG Deeks, N Archin, P Cannon, S Collins, RB Jones… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV, lifelong
treatment is required and there is no cure. HIV can integrate in the host genome and persist …

The biology of the HIV-1 latent reservoir and implications for cure strategies

LB Cohn, N Chomont, SG Deeks - Cell host & microbe, 2020 - cell.com
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) inhibits HIV replication but is not curative. During ART, the
integrated HIV genome persists indefinitely within CD4+ T cells and perhaps other cells …

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 …

CRISPRi and CRISPRa screens in mammalian cells for precision biology and medicine

M Kampmann - ACS chemical biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Next-generation DNA sequencing technologies have led to a massive accumulation of
genomic and transcriptomic data from patients and healthy individuals. The major challenge …

Osteopontin/secreted phosphoprotein‐1 harnesses glial‐, immune‐, and neuronal cell ligand‐receptor interactions to sense and regulate acute and chronic …

A Yim, C Smith, AM Brown - Immunological reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Osteopontin (OPN) also known by its official gene designation secreted phosphoprotein‐1
(SPP1) is a fascinating, multifunctional protein expressed in a number of cell types that …

Block-and-lock strategies to cure HIV infection

G Vansant, A Bruggemans, J Janssens, Z Debyser - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Today HIV infection cannot be cured due to the presence of a reservoir of latently infected
cells inducing a viral rebound upon treatment interruption. Hence, the latent reservoir is …

The current status of latency reversing agents for HIV-1 remission

A Rodari, G Darcis, CM Van Lint - Annual review of virology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Combinatory antiretroviral therapy (cART) reduces human immunodeficiency virus type 1
(HIV-1) replication but is not curative because cART interruption almost invariably leads to a …

HIV “shock and kill” therapy: In need of revision

E Abner, A Jordan - Antiviral research, 2019 - Elsevier
The implementation of antiretroviral therapy 23 years ago has rendered HIV infection
clinically manageable. However, the disease remains incurable, since it establishes latent …

The reservoir of latent HIV

J Chen, T Zhou, Y Zhang, S Luo, H Chen… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The persistence of latent reservoir of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is currently
the major challenge in curing HIV infection. After HIV infects the human body, the latent HIV …

Cellular metabolism is a major determinant of HIV-1 reservoir seeding in CD4+ T cells and offers an opportunity to tackle infection

JC Valle-Casuso, M Angin, S Volant, C Passaes… - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
HIV persists in long-lived infected cells that are not affected by antiretroviral treatment. These
HIV reservoirs are mainly located in CD4+ T cells, but their distribution is variable in the …