Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 10, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...and CRISPR/Cas9 have also been used to create mutations in genes essential to HIV-1 replication. However...CRISPR therapies through PAM or seed sequence mutations. Multiple gRNAs could be used to combat this problem...LTRs or essential genes. Many of these escape mutations were located near the Cas9 cut site, leading Wang...escape occurs in an animal model. If these escape mutations are frequent, the dCas9-mediated “shock and kill... Zhang T, Li F, Yang W, Kaminski R, Fagan PR, Putatunda R, Young WB, Khalili K, Hu W. CRISPR/gRNA-directed... S, Wainberg MA, Liang C. CRISPR/Cas9-Derived Mutations Both Inhibit HIV-1 Replication and Accelerate ...