Connecting HIV-1 integration and transcription: a step toward new treatments
Thanks to the current combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), HIV-1 infection has become a manageable although chronic disease. The reason for this lies in the fact that long-lived cellular reservoirs persist in patients on cART. Despite numerous efforts to understand molecular mechanisms that contr...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) Review |
| Language: | English |
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16 June 2016
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FEBS letters
Year: 2016, Volume: 590, Issue: 13, Pages: 1927-1939 |
| ISSN: | 1873-3468 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/1873-3468.12226 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.12226 Verlag, Volltext: https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/1873-3468.12226 
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| Author Notes: | Bojana Lucic and Marina Lusic |
| Summary: | Thanks to the current combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), HIV-1 infection has become a manageable although chronic disease. The reason for this lies in the fact that long-lived cellular reservoirs persist in patients on cART. Despite numerous efforts to understand molecular mechanisms that contribute to viral latency, the important question of how and when latency is established remains unanswered. Related to this is the connection between HIV-1 integration and the capacity of the provirus to enter the latent state. In this review, we will give an overview of these nuclear events in the viral life cycle in the light of current therapeutic approaches, which aim to either reactivate the provirus or even excise the proviral DNA from the cellular genome. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 12.02.2019 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1873-3468 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/1873-3468.12226 |