Targeting HIV transcription: The quest for a functional cure

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 389, Issue , 2015, Pages 121-145

  Mousseau, Guillaume ^a   Mediouni, Sonia ^a   Valente, Susana T ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 9; CYCLIN T1; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR B; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; TRANSACTIVATION RESPONSE ELEMENT; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRIPTOLIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; DRUG TARGETING; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HIV ASSOCIATED DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; HIV LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; HIV-1; HUMANS; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTOR B; TAT GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 84928736772     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: 21969965     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82_2015_435     Document Type: Article

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