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Single-cell epigenetic, transcriptional, and protein profiling of latent and active HIV-1 reservoir revealed that IKZF3 promotes HIV-1 persistence
Wei Y, Davenport T, Collora J, Ma H, Pinto-Santini D, Lama J, Alfaro R, Duerr A, Ho Y. Single-cell epigenetic, transcriptional, and protein profiling of latent and active HIV-1 reservoir revealed that IKZF3 promotes HIV-1 persistence. Immunity 2023, 56: 2584-2601.e7. PMID: 37922905, PMCID: PMC10843106, DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.10.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTranscription factor accessibilityHIV-1-infected cellsFactor accessibilityHIV-1 persistenceHeterogeneous cellular statesEpigenetic programsCellular programsCellular statesLatent HIV-1-infected cellsProliferation programProtein profilingSuppressive antiretroviral therapyHIV-1 eradicationHIV-1 reservoirCell deathProtein statesHIV-1 RNAAP-1HIV-1 DNASurface proteinsMechanistic interrogationEpigeneticsAntiretroviral therapyMemory CD4Effector differentiation
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Single-cell multiomic understanding of HIV-1 reservoir at epigenetic, transcriptional, and protein levels
Wong M, Wei Y, Ho Y. Single-cell multiomic understanding of HIV-1 reservoir at epigenetic, transcriptional, and protein levels. Current Opinion In HIV And AIDS 2023, 18: 246-256. PMID: 37535039, PMCID: PMC10442869, DOI: 10.1097/coh.0000000000000809.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSurface protein expressionMultiomics approachATAC-seqProtein expressionTranscription factor activityProtein levelsRNA mappingRNA-seqBioinformatics analysisHIV-1-infected cellsFalse positive discoveriesBiological insightsBulk transcriptomeFactor activityDNA amplificationExpressionCellsTranscriptomeTherapeutic strategiesEpigeneticsDiscoveryDNA PCRRNADNAHIV-1