title: Connecting HIV-1 integration and transcription: a step toward new treatments.
abstract: Thanks to the current combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), HIV-1 infection has become a manageable although chronic disease. The reason for this lies in the fact that long-lived cellular reservoirs persist in patients on cART. Despite numerous efforts to understand molecular mechanisms that contribute to viral latency, the important question of how and when latency is established remains unanswered. Related to this is the connection between HIV-1 integration and the capacity of the provirus to enter the latent state. In this review, we will give an overview of these nuclear events in the viral life cycle in the light of current therapeutic approaches, which aim to either reactivate the provirus or even excise the proviral DNA from the cellular genome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Integrative Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Germany.
authors.forename: Bojana
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lucic
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Integrative Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Germany.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lusic
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002843:Chromatin / Q000378:metabolism; D004197:Disease Reservoirs / Q000821:virology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000628:therapy*; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D016662:Virus Integration / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin
keywords: integration; latency; transcription