| Literature DB >> 1738200 |
B Dropulić1, N H Lin, M A Martin, K T Jeang.
Abstract
We have designed a ribozyme that cleaves human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) RNA in U5 (at nucleotide +115). This ribozyme was tested in vitro and was found to give efficient and specific digestion of RNA containing the HIV-1 U5 sequence. When the U5 ribozyme was placed into the HIV-1 genome, virus replication was suppressed in tissue culture. Introduction of this ribozyme into cells by using an amphotropic retrovirus vector significantly reduced expression of U5-containing RNA in cells chronically infected with HIV-1. Naive T cells were cocultivated with packaging cells that produce defective amphotropic retroviruses containing the U5 ribozyme. These lymphocytes were found to be partially protected from HIV-1 infection.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID: 1738200 PMCID: PMC240867
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103