Control of Viral Replication by Non-Coding Viral RNA

Grant number: 400302

Abstract

In 25 years since identified, HIV-AIDS deaths have exceeded 30 million and 40 million more are now living with HIV. The toll will soon far surpass any other infectious disease epidemic in history, or even military deaths from war in the past century. While effective combination drug therapies are available, multi-drug resistant HIV strains are commonly transmitted, leaving some patients with limited treatment options. New classes of drugs aimed at different steps in virus replication are urgently needed. We have discovered that viral RNAs that do not code for protein serve important functions in HIV replication. We will study the molecular mechanisms these non-coding (intron) RNAs previously..

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