HIV Gene Therapy

"Construction of a Novel Virus That Targets HIV-1-Infected Cells and Controls HIV-1 Infection."

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, November 10th, 1997

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Cell, "We describe a recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus lacking its glycoprotein gene and expressing instead the HIV-1 receptor CD4 and a coreceptor, CXCR4. This virus was unable to infect normal cells but did infect, propagate on, and kill cells that were first infected with HIV-1 and therefore had the HIV membrane fusion protein on their surface. Killing of HIV-1-infected cells controlled HIV infection in a T-cell line and reduced titers of infectious HIV-1 in the culture by as much as 10⁴-fold. Such a targeted virus could have therapeutic value in reducing HIV viral load. Our results also demonstrate a...

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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (1997-11-10)

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