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ReviewBioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy2007

RNAi therapy for HIV infection: principles and practicalities.

Yamina Bennasser, Man Lung Yeung, Kuan-Teh Jeang

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Review in BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Electro-Magnetic Nano-Particle Bound Beclin1 siRNA Crosses the Blood-Brain Barrier to Attenuate the Inflammatory Effects of HIV-1 Infection in Vitro.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2017
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  7. The effects of cocaine on HIV transcription.Journal of neurovirology · 2016
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  10. Therapeutic potential of aptamer-siRNA conjugates for treatment of HIV-1.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2012
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yamina BennasserMolecular Virology Section, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Man Lung Yeung
Kuan-Teh Jeang
National Institutes of Health · USNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · US

Funding

Molecular Mechanisms Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Trans-regulatory ProteinsZIAAI000547 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI JEANG, KUAN-TEH · 2009 to 2013
$5.9M
MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF HUMAN RETROVIRUS TRANS-REGULATORY PROTEINSZ01AI000547 · NIAID · NIAID EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES · PI JEANG, KUAN-TEH · 1989 to 2008
$2.8M
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inside eukaryotic cells, small RNA duplexes, called small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), activate a conserved RNA interference (RNAi) pathway which leads to specific degradation of complementary target mRNAs through base-pairing recognition. As with other viruses, studies have shown that replication of the HIV-1 in cultured cells can be targeted and inhibited by synthetic siRNAs. The relative ease of siRNA design and the versatility of RNAi to target a broad spectrum of mRNAs have led to the promise that drug discovery in the RNAi pathway could be effective against pathogens. This review discusses the current experimental principles that guide the application of RNAi against HIV and describes challenges and limitations that need to be surmounted in order for siRNAs to become practical antiviral drugs. The practical use of RNAi therapy for HIV infection will depend on overcoming several challenges, including the ability to establish long-term expression of siRNA without off-target effects and the capacity to counteract mutant escape viruses.

Indexed as

HIV InfectionsHumansRNA InterferenceRNA, Small InterferingVirus ReplicationRNA, Small Interfering

Identifiers

PMID17263586
PMCPMC7100089
OpenAlexW1969007191

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