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 …

Targeting bromodomains: epigenetic readers of lysine acetylation

P Filippakopoulos, S Knapp - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
Lysine acetylation is a key mechanism that regulates chromatin structure; aberrant
acetylation levels have been linked to the development of several diseases. Acetyl-lysine …

Antiretroviral drugs for treatment and prevention of HIV infection in adults: 2016 recommendations of the International Antiviral Society–USA panel

HF Günthard, MS Saag, CA Benson, C Del Rio, JJ Eron… - Jama, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance New data and therapeutic options warrant updated recommendations for the use
of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to treat or to prevent HIV infection in adults. Objective To …

Proliferation of latently infected CD4+ T cells carrying replication-competent HIV-1: Potential role in latent reservoir dynamics

NN Hosmane, KJ Kwon, KM Bruner… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - rupress.org
A latent reservoir for HIV-1 in resting CD4+ T lymphocytes precludes cure. Mechanisms
underlying reservoir stability are unclear. Recent studies suggest an unexpected degree of …

Single-cell RNA-seq highlights intratumoral heterogeneity in primary glioblastoma

AP Patel, I Tirosh, JJ Trombetta, AK Shalek… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Human cancers are complex ecosystems composed of cells with distinct phenotypes,
genotypes, and epigenetic states, but current models do not adequately reflect tumor …

[HTML][HTML] Replication-competent noninduced proviruses in the latent reservoir increase barrier to HIV-1 cure

YC Ho, L Shan, NN Hosmane, J Wang, SB Laskey… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Antiretroviral therapy fails to cure HIV-1 infection because latent proviruses persist in resting
CD4+ T cells. T cell activation reverses latency, but< 1% of proviruses are induced to …

Intrinsic retroviral reactivation in human preimplantation embryos and pluripotent cells

EJ Grow, RA Flynn, SL Chavez, NL Bayless… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are remnants of ancient retroviral infections, and comprise
nearly 8% of the human genome. The most recently acquired human ERV is HERVK (HML …

The Depsipeptide Romidepsin Reverses HIV-1 Latency In Vivo

OS Søgaard, ME Graversen, S Leth, R Olesen… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Pharmacologically-induced activation of replication competent proviruses from latency in the
presence of antiretroviral treatment (ART) has been proposed as a step towards curing HIV …

Origins of HIV and the AIDS pandemic

PM Sharp, BH Hahn - Cold Spring …, 2011 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) of humans is caused by two lentiviruses,
human immunodeficiency viruses types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2). Here, we describe the …

Broad CTL response is required to clear latent HIV-1 due to dominance of escape mutations

K Deng, M Pertea, A Rongvaux, L Wang, CM Durand… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Despite antiretroviral therapy (ART), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 persists in a
stable latent reservoir,, primarily in resting memory CD4+ T cells,. This reservoir presents a …