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ReviewMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2015

Engineering T Cells to Functionally Cure HIV-1 Infection.

Rachel S Leibman, James L Riley

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Review in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Nanocarrier-based immunotherapy for viral diseases.International journal of pharmaceutics: X · 2025
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  5. Cell therapies for viral diseases: a new frontier.Seminars in immunopathology · 2025
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  12. HIV-Resistant and HIV-Specific CAR-Modified CD4Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2020
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  14. Improving T Cell Receptor On-Target Specificity via Structure-Guided Design.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2019
    Article
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  16. Genetic Strategies for HIV Treatment and Prevention.Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids · 2018
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  18. Quarter Century of Anti-HIV CAR T Cells.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2018
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  19. Improved Expansion andMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rachel S LeibmanDepartment of Microbiology and the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
James L RileyDepartment of Microbiology and the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Electronic address: rileyj@exchange.upenn.edu.
Cancer Research Institute · US

Funding

Virus & Reservoirs CoreP30AI045008 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI DAVID S METZGER · 1999 to 2026
$78.6M
Sequencing and Viral Evolution CoreU19AI117950 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WHERRY, E. JOHN · 2015 to 2019
$12.0M
Targeting the Persistent HIV-1 Viral Reservoir Using Engineered T cellsR33AI104280 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI RILEY, JAMES L. · 2015 to 2017
$1.4M
Targeting the Persistent HIV-1 Viral Reservoir Using Engineered T cellsR21AI104280 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI RILEY, JAMES L. · 2013 to 2014
$437k
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the ability of antiretroviral therapy to minimize human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication and increase the duration and quality of patients' lives, the health consequences and financial burden associated with the lifelong treatment regimen render a permanent cure highly attractive. Although T cells play an important role in controlling virus replication, they are themselves targets of HIV-mediated destruction. Direct genetic manipulation of T cells for adoptive cellular therapies could facilitate a functional cure by generating HIV-1-resistant cells, redirecting HIV-1-specific immune responses, or a combination of the two strategies. In contrast to a vaccine approach, which relies on the production and priming of HIV-1-specific lymphocytes within a patient's own body, adoptive T-cell therapy provides an opportunity to customize the therapeutic T cells prior to administration. However, at present, it is unclear how to best engineer T cells so that sustained control over HIV-1 replication can be achieved in the absence of antiretrovirals. This review focuses on T-cell gene-engineering and gene-editing strategies that have been performed in efforts to inhibit HIV-1 replication and highlights the requirements for a successful gene therapy-mediated functional cure.

Indexed as

Cell- and Tissue-Based TherapyCell EngineeringHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansT-LymphocytesVirus Replication

Identifiers

PMID25896251
PMCPMC4817793
OpenAlexW2010165685

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