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 …

Recent developments of HDAC inhibitors: Emerging indications and novel molecules

AD Bondarev, MM Attwood, J Jonsson… - British journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The histone deacetylase (HDAC) enzymes, a class of epigenetic regulators, are historically
well established as attractive therapeutic targets. During investigation of trends within …

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 …

Impact of a TLR9 agonist and broadly neutralizing antibodies on HIV-1 persistence: the randomized phase 2a TITAN trial

JD Gunst, JF Højen, MH Pahus, M Rosás-Umbert… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Inducing antiretroviral therapy (ART)-free virological control is a critical step toward a human
immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) cure. In this phase 2a, placebo-controlled, double …

Getting the “kill” into “shock and kill”: strategies to eliminate latent HIV

Y Kim, JL Anderson, SR Lewin - Cell host & microbe, 2018 - cell.com
Despite the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART), there is currently no HIV cure and
treatment is life long. HIV persists during ART due to long-lived and proliferating latently …

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 …

The HIV reservoir in monocytes and macrophages

ME Wong, A Jaworowski, AC Hearps - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In people living with HIV (PLWH) who are failing or unable to access combination
antiretroviral therapy (cART), monocytes and macrophages are important drivers of …

Defective HIV-1 proviruses are expressed and can be recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocytes, which shape the proviral landscape

RA Pollack, RB Jones, M Pertea, KM Bruner… - Cell host & …, 2017 - cell.com
Despite antiretroviral therapy, HIV-1 persists in memory CD4+ T cells, creating a barrier to
cure. The majority of HIV-1 proviruses are defective and considered clinically irrelevant …

Curing HIV: seeking to target and clear persistent infection

DM Margolis, NM Archin, MS Cohen, JJ Eron, G Ferrari… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection persists despite years of
antiretroviral therapy (ART). To remove the stigma and burden of chronic infection …

Current status of latency reversing agents facing the heterogeneity of HIV-1 cellular and tissue reservoirs

A Ait-Ammar, A Kula, G Darcis, R Verdikt… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
One of the most explored therapeutic approaches aimed at eradicating HIV-1 reservoirs is
the “shock and kill” strategy which is based on HIV-1 reactivation in latently-infected cells …