Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
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...cell cycle progression, or apoptosis with Cas9/gRNA expression. A pooled analysis found no evidence of Cas9... HIV-1 toxic proteins, CRISPR/Cas9 SAM caused apoptosis, indicating a true “shock and kill” response.
...binding. It’s also possible that HIV-1 may evolve resistance to CRISPR therapies through PAM or seed sequence...multiple drugs to lower the odds of developing resistance.
Shortly after Kaminski et al. published their...not ablate viral function, but rather promote resistance to CRISPR/Cas9. While these results are discouraging...synergistic activation mediator (SAM) induces specific, persistent and robust reactivation of the HIV-1 latent reservoirs...