Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Sequential LASER ART and CRISPR Treatments Eliminate HIV-1 in a Subset of Infected Humanized Mice

  • Prasanta K. Dash,
  • Rafal Kaminski,
  • Ramona Bella,
  • Hang Su,
  • Saumi Mathews,
  • Taha M. Ahooyi,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Pietro Mancuso,
  • Rahsan Sariyer,
  • Pasquale Ferrante,
  • Martina Donadoni,
  • Jake A. Robinson,
  • Brady Sillman,
  • Zhiyi Lin,
  • James R. Hilaire,
  • Mary Banoub,
  • Monalisha Elango,
  • Nagsen Gautam,
  • R. Lee Mosley,
  • Larisa Y. Poluektova,
  • JoEllyn McMillan,
  • Aditya N. Bade,
  • Santhi Gorantla,
  • Ilker K. Sariyer,
  • Tricia H. Burdo,
  • Won-Bin Young,
  • Shohreh Amini,
  • Jennifer Gordon,
  • Jeffrey M. Jacobson,
  • Benson Edagwa,
  • Kamel Khalili,
  • Howard E. Gendelman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10366-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Here, the authors show that sequential treatment with long-acting slow-effective release ART and AAV9- based delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 results in undetectable levels of virus and integrated DNA in a subset of humanized HIV-1 infected mice. This proof-of-concept study suggests that HIV-1 elimination is possible.