Development of an Attenuated Tat Protein as a Highly-effective Agent to Specifically Activate HIV-1 Latency.

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Published in Mol Ther on June 06, 2016

Authors

Guannan Geng1,2, Bingfeng Liu1,2, Cancan Chen1,2, Kang Wu1,2, Jun Liu1,2, Yijun Zhang1,2, Ting Pan1,2, Jun Li1,2, Yue Yin1,2, Junsong Zhang1,2, Feng Huang1,2, Fei Yu1,2, Jingliang Chen1,2, Xiancai Ma1,2, Jie Zhou1,2, Ersheng Kuang1,2, Chao Liu1,2, Weiping Cai3, Hui Zhang1,2

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
2: Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control of Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
3: Department of Infectious Diseases, Guangzhou 8th People's Hospital, Guangzhou, China.

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