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ArticleAIDS research and human retroviruses2020

Skipped Over: Tuning Natural Killer Cells Toward HIV Through Alternative Splicing.

Daniel R Ram, Kyle Kroll, R Keith Reeves

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Article in AIDS research and human retroviruses, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Daniel R RamCenter for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Kyle KrollCenter for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
R Keith ReevesCenter for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USRagon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard · US

Funding

The impact of HIV viral diversity and cellular immunity on HIV pathogenesisP30AI060354 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI RAJESH T GANDHI · 2004 to 2026
$94.4M
Multidisciplinary HIV Training ProgramT32AI007387 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Daniel R. Kuritzkes · 1990 to 2026
$8.8M
Antigen-Specific NK Cell Memory Against SIV and HIV VaccinesR01AI120828 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI REEVES, ROGER KEITH · 2017 to 2020
$3.5M
NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI060354NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI120828NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007387
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural killer (NK) cells provide some of the earliest immune responses to infection, but when viruses manipulate or perturb the immune environment to alter NK cell function, this places the host at a disadvantage. Indeed, others and we observe that in the context of HIV/simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection, although NK cells are not infected, they can become dysfunctional over time. Several studies have characterized protein and transcriptional profiles of NK cells during HIV/SIV infection, but none have examined whether the production of alternative transcripts and corresponding isoforms is modulated. This phenomenon occurs broadly in normal biology and in other disease states, and could provide a novel avenue of investigation that may yield better targets to restore or augment NK cell responses to HIV/SIV. Herein, we briefly summarize published and new data that may provide a perspective on how to target NK cell splice variants.

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Alternative SplicingHIV InfectionsSimian Acquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeSimian Immunodeficiency VirusAnimalsKiller Cells, Naturalalternative splicingHIV/SIVnatural killer cell

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PMID32862656
PMCPMC7703092
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