Microglial cells: the main HIV-1 reservoir in the brain

C Wallet, M De Rovere, J Van Assche… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Despite efficient combination of the antiretroviral therapy (cART), which significantly
decreased mortality and morbidity of HIV-1 infection, a definitive HIV cure has not been …

Gene editing and CRISPR in the clinic: current and future perspectives

MP Hirakawa, R Krishnakumar, JA Timlin… - Bioscience …, 2020 - portlandpress.com
Genome editing technologies, particularly those based on zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs),
transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and CRISPR (clustered regularly …

CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing for disease modeling and therapy: challenges and opportunities for nonviral delivery

HX Wang, M Li, CM Lee, S Chakraborty… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Genome editing offers promising solutions to genetic disorders by editing DNA sequences
or modulating gene expression. The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

CRISPR/Cas gene therapy

B Zhang - Journal of Cellular Physiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR‐associated
enzyme (Cas) is a naturally occurring genome editing tool adopted from the prokaryotic …

[HTML][HTML] Sequential LASER ART and CRISPR treatments eliminate HIV-1 in a subset of infected humanized mice

PK Dash, R Kaminski, R Bella, H Su, S Mathews… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Elimination of HIV-1 requires clearance and removal of integrated proviral DNA from
infected cells and tissues. Here, sequential long-acting slow-effective release antiviral …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo excision of HIV-1 provirus by saCas9 and multiplex single-guide RNAs in animal models

C Yin, T Zhang, X Qu, Y Zhang, R Putatunda, X Xiao… - Molecular Therapy, 2017 - cell.com
CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9)-mediated genome editing provides a promising cure
for HIV-1/AIDS; however, gene delivery efficiency in vivo remains an obstacle to overcome …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR-Cas systems: Overview, innovations and applications in human disease research and gene therapy

Y Xu, Z Li - Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Genome editing is the modification of genomic DNA at a specific target site in a wide variety
of cell types and organisms, including insertion, deletion and replacement of DNA, resulting …

Engineering resistance against Tomato yellow leaf curl virus via the CRISPR/Cas9 system in tomato

M Tashkandi, Z Ali, F Aljedaani, A Shami… - Plant signaling & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT CRISPR/Cas systems confer molecular immunity against phages and
conjugative plasmids in prokaryotes. Recently, CRISPR/Cas9 systems have been used to …

CRISPR based editing of SIV proviral DNA in ART treated non-human primates

P Mancuso, C Chen, R Kaminski, J Gordon… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Elimination of HIV DNA from infected individuals remains a challenge in medicine. Here, we
demonstrate that intravenous inoculation of SIV-infected macaques, a well-accepted non …

Drug delivery systems for CRISPR-based genome editors

V Madigan, F Zhang, JE Dahlman - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR-based drugs can theoretically manipulate any genetic target. In practice, however,
these drugs must enter the desired cell without eliciting an unwanted immune response, so …