摘要:
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for inhibiting herpesvirus replication in a cell infected with herpesvirus. The composition includes a double stranded DNA molecule including a sequence of a cis regulatory sequence (crs) of a herpesvirus, wherein the crs is flanked on the 5' end by a first sequence of at least 2 base pairs and on the 3' end by a second sequence of at least 2 base pairs.
摘要:
HIV-1's ability to enter a transcriptionally dormant state and establish a reservoir of latently infected cells is considered the major barrier to eradicating the virus from infected patients. Stochastic noise (i.e. fluctuations) in an HIV-1 transcriptional positive-feedback loop is one mechanism that enables HIV-1 to establish latency. Here, Applicants demonstrate that small-molecule modulation of noise in HIV-1 gene expression radically perturbs HIV-1 latency.