Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
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...promoter-luciferase constructs. In multiple HIV-1 latent T cell lines, as well as a latent microglial line, treatment ...via HIV-1 promoter-driven GFP expression. In cell lines that can produce HIV-1 toxic proteins, CRISPR/Cas9...Cas9 have also been used to create mutations in genes essential to HIV-1 replication. However, this approach...modification targeting either the LTRs or essential genes. Many of these escape mutations were located near...