An insight on promising strategies hoping to cure HIV-1 infection by targeting Rev protein—short review

Sahana Pai, Jayesh Mudgal, B. Venkatesh Kamath, K. Sreedhara Ranganath Pai

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Abstract

Human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infection remains to be one of the major threats throughout the world. Many researchers are working in this area to find a cure for HIV-1. The group of the FDA approved drugs which are currently used against HIV-1 in the clinical practice include nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), integrase inhibitors (InIs), and protease inhibitors (PIs). Fixed dose combinations (FDCs) of these drugs are available and are used as per the anti-retroviral therapy (ART) guidelines. Despite these, unfortunately, there is no cure for HIV1 infection to date. The present review is focused upon describing the importance of a post-transcriptional regulatory protein “Rev”, responsible for latent HIV-1 infection as a possible, and promising therapeutic target against HIV-1.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1265-1272
Number of pages8
JournalPharmacological Reports
Volume73
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10-2021

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Pharmacology

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