Engineering HIV-Resistant Human CD4+ T Cells with CXCR4-Specific Zinc-Finger Nucleases
Wilen CB, Wang J, Tilton JC, Miller JC, Kim KA, Rebar EJ, Sherrill-Mix SA, Patro SC, Secreto AJ, Jordan AP, Lee G, Kahn J, Aye PP, Bunnell BA, Lackner AA, Hoxie JA, Danet-Desnoyers GA, Bushman FD, Riley JL, Gregory PD, June CH, Holmes MC, Doms RW. Engineering HIV-Resistant Human CD4+ T Cells with CXCR4-Specific Zinc-Finger Nucleases. PLOS Pathogens 2011, 7: e1002020. PMID: 21533216, PMCID: PMC3077364, DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002020.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsT cellsHIV-1Human CD4X4-tropic HIV-1X4 HIV-1CCR5-tropic virusHumanized mouse modelLoss of CXCR4CXCR4-tropic HIVHIV-1 entryHuman T cellsCCR5Δ32 polymorphismAdoptive transferAutologous transplantCell surface expressionCXCR4 coreceptorMouse modelCD4CCR5CXCR4Surface expressionHIVInfectionSuch cellsHost cells