Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
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...therapeutics - one using dCas9-SAM to activate HIV-1 transcription and destroy infected cells, the other using ...histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors to increase transcription of the integrated HIV-1 genome. For a targeted...dCas9-VP64 fusion commonly used to activate transcription, but with two additional activation domains ...domains (MS2 and p65) to enhance transcriptional activation.
Zhang et al. designed multiple gRNAs to target ...