Application of CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing in HIV-1/AIDS therapy

Q Xiao, D Guo, S Chen - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Despite the fact that great efforts have been made in the prevention and therapy of HIV-1
infection, HIV-1/AIDS remains a major threat to global human health. Highly active …

Getting into the brain: Potential of nanotechnology in the management of NeuroAIDS

M Nair, RD Jayant, A Kaushik, V Sagar - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
In spite of significant advances in antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, the elimination of human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) reservoirs from the periphery and the central nervous system …

[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 …

Elimination of HIV-1 genomes from human T-lymphoid cells by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing

R Kaminski, Y Chen, T Fischer, E Tedaldi, A Napoli… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
We employed an RNA-guided CRISPR/Cas9 DNA editing system to precisely remove the
entire HIV-1 genome spanning between 5′ and 3′ LTRs of integrated HIV-1 proviral DNA …

Excision of HIV-1 DNA by gene editing: a proof-of-concept in vivo study

R Kaminski, R Bella, C Yin, J Otte, P Ferrante… - Gene therapy, 2016 - nature.com
A CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing strategy has been remarkable in excising segments of
integrated HIV-1 DNA sequences from the genome of latently infected human cell lines and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic potentials of CRISPR-Cas genome editing technology in human viral infections

S Najafi, SC Tan, S Aghamiri, P Raee… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Viral infections are a common cause of morbidity worldwide. The emergence of Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to more attention to viral infections and finding novel …

Class 2 CRISPR/Cas: an expanding biotechnology toolbox for and beyond genome editing

Y Tang, Y Fu - Cell & bioscience, 2018 - Springer
Artificial nuclease-dependent DNA cleavage systems (zinc-finger nuclease, ZFN;
transcription activator like effectors, TALENs) and exogenous nucleic acid defense systems …

Magnetically guided non-invasive CRISPR-Cas9/gRNA delivery across blood-brain barrier to eradicate latent HIV-1 infection

A Kaushik, A Yndart, V Atluri, S Tiwari, A Tomitaka… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas9/gRNA exhibits therapeutic efficacy against latent human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) genome but the delivery of this therapeutic cargo to the brain remains as a …

Gene editing of HIV-1 co-receptors to prevent and/or cure virus infection

AG Allen, CH Chung, A Atkins, W Dampier… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Antiretroviral therapy has prolonged the lives of people living with human immunodeficiency
virus type 1 (HIV-1), transforming the disease into one that can be controlled with lifelong …