Nikolai Bryan C, Feng Qin
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Cell Host Microbe. 2017 May 10;21(5):549-550. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2017.04.012.
Transcriptional latency of integrated HIV-1 provirus represents a major obstacle to curing HIV. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Boehm et al. (2017) identify a new lysine methyltransferase that writes a repressive histone mark associated with HIV-1 latency. The results are important for strategies to pharmacologically reverse HIV-1 latency.
整合的HIV-1前病毒的转录潜伏期是治愈HIV的主要障碍。在本期《细胞宿主与微生物》中, Boehm等人(2017年)鉴定出一种新的赖氨酸甲基转移酶,该酶会产生与HIV-1潜伏期相关的抑制性组蛋白标记。这些结果对于从药理学角度逆转HIV-1潜伏期的策略具有重要意义。