A conditional RNA Pol II mono-promoter drives HIV-inducible, CRISPR-mediated cyclin T1 suppression and HIV inhibition
Gene editing using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) targeted to HIV proviral DNA has shown excision of HIV from infected cells.However, CRISPR-based HIV excision is vulnerable to viral escape.Targeting cellular co-factors provides an attractive yet risky alternative to render viral escape irrelevant.Cyclin T1 is a