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Reviewed pre-print at @eLIFE now online which describes our screen for host mechanisms that limit the ability to activate HIV from latency and identifies a target that could be druggable: "Integrator complex subunit 12 knockout overcomes a transcriptional block to HIV latency reversal" https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103064.1 Revisions for the paper should not be too difficult. Also good timing for the first author, Carley Gray, whose defense is tomorrow afternoon.
in reply to Michael Emerman

congrats!
I was just discussing HIV with a colleague today. During an HIV infection is most of the virus in the integrated/latent state?
in reply to Frank Aylward

@foaylward No, only a small minority is latent during an active infection, and most of the latent reservoir is defective. However, there is enough there to prevent the virus from being cleared by the immune system. (Integration is an essential step of the virus life-cycle though which is why the integration inhibitors work so well).

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