HIV/AIDS

Report summarizes HIV/AIDS study findings from Harvard University

Published in Pharma Law Weekly, July 21st, 2009

According to recent research from the United States, "Retroviruses and retrotransposons are vulnerable to a suicidal pathway known as autointegration, which occurs when the 3'-ends of the reverse transcript are activated by integrase and then attack sites within the viral DNA. Retroelements have diverse strategies for suppressing autointegration, but how HIV-1 protects itself from autointegration is not well-understood."

"Here we show that knocking down any of the components of the SET complex, an endoplasmic reticulum-associated complex that contains 3 DNases (the base excision repair endonuclease APE1, 5'-3' exonuclease TREX1, and endonuclease NM23-H1), inhibits HIV-1...

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Source: Pharma Law Weekly (2009-07-21)

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