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 …

Eradicating HIV-1 infection: seeking to clear a persistent pathogen

NM Archin, JM Sung, C Garrido… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) blunts viraemia, which enables HIV-1-infected
individuals to control infection and live long, productive lives. However, HIV-1 infection …

Early intervention with 3BNC117 and romidepsin at antiretroviral treatment initiation in people with HIV-1: a phase 1b/2a, randomized trial

JD Gunst, MH Pahus, M Rosás-Umbert, IN Lu… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Attempts to reduce the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reservoir and induce
antiretroviral therapy (ART)-free virologic control have largely been unsuccessful. In this …

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 …

Panobinostat, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, for latent-virus reactivation in HIV-infected patients on suppressive antiretroviral therapy: a phase 1/2, single group …

TA Rasmussen, M Tolstrup, CR Brinkmann… - The lancet HIV, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background Activating the expression of latent virus is an approach that might form part of
an HIV cure. We assessed the ability of the histone deacetylase inhibitor panobinostat to …

HIV latency in isolated patient CD4+ T cells may be due to blocks in HIV transcriptional elongation, completion, and splicing

SA Yukl, P Kaiser, P Kim, S Telwatte, SK Joshi… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
Latently infected CD4+ T cells are the main barrier to complete clearance of HIV infection,
but it is unclear what mechanisms govern latent HIV infection in vivo. To address this …

Activation of HIV transcription with short-course vorinostat in HIV-infected patients on suppressive antiretroviral therapy

JH Elliott, F Wightman, A Solomon, K Ghneim… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) persistence in latently infected resting memory CD4+
T-cells is the major barrier to HIV cure. Cellular histone deacetylases (HDACs) are important …

Robust and persistent reactivation of SIV and HIV by N-803 and depletion of CD8+ cells

JB McBrien, M Mavigner, L Franchitti, SA Smith… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) persists indefinitely in individuals with HIV who
receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) owing to a reservoir of latently infected cells that contain …

Ex vivo analysis identifies effective HIV-1 latency–reversing drug combinations

GM Laird, CK Bullen, DIS Rosenbloom… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Reversal of HIV-1 latency by small molecules is a potential cure strategy. This approach will
likely require effective drug combinations to achieve high levels of latency reversal. Using …

Broadly neutralizing antibodies and viral inducers decrease rebound from HIV-1 latent reservoirs in humanized mice

A Halper-Stromberg, CL Lu, F Klein, JA Horwitz… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Latent reservoirs of HIV-1-infected cells are refractory to antiretroviral therapies (ART) and
remain the major barrier to curing HIV-1. Because latently infected cells are long-lived …