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SUBMITTER: Barclay RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6724219 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barclay Robert A RA Khatkar Pooja P Mensah Gifty G DeMarino Catherine C Chu Jeffery S C JSC Lepene Benjamin B Zhou Weidong W Gillevet Patrick P Torkzaban Bahareh B Khalili Kamel K Liotta Lance L Kashanchi Fatah F
Cells 20190729 8
Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 (HIV-1) is the causative agent of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), infecting nearly 37 million people worldwide. Currently, there is no definitive cure, mainly due to HIV-1's ability to enact latency. Our previous work has shown that exosomes, a small extracellular vesicle, from uninfected cells can activate HIV-1 in latent cells, leading to increased mostly short and some long HIV-1 RNA transcripts. This is consistent with the notion that none of the FDA ...[more]