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Table 3 Overview of past and current investigations by CRISPR/Cas9 in HIV therapy

From: Editing out HIV: application of gene editing technology to achieve functional cure

Years

Target region

Cell type/organism

References

2014

HIV-1 LTR promoter U3 region

Myeloid lineage cells

Hu et al. [61]

2015

CCR5 locus

Primary human T cells

Sather et al. [52]

2016

Heteroduplex of wild type and mutant CCR5 delta 32

(i) Middle band

(ii) Upper band

(iii) Lower band

(i) Human embryonic kidney HEK 293T cells

(ii) Human acute T cell

(iii) Leukemia cell line

(iv) Human breast adenocarcinoma cell line

MDA-MB-231 cells

Qi et al. [111]

2017

Gene KO in both mouse and human T cells

CD4+ and CD8+ T cells from mouse and human

Seki et al. [112]

2017

GPI-scFv X5

CD4 cells in hu-PBL mice sand mice with GPI-scFv AB65-transduction

Ye et al. [113]

2017

Human CCR5 locus in peripheral lymphocytes from long-term reconstituted mice

Human CD34+ cells

Xu et al. [66]

2017

Four different sites of the HIV-1 long terminal repeat (LTR)

HEK293T cells in humanized

Bone marrow/liver/thymus (BLT) mice with chronic HIV-1 infection

Yin et al. [65]

2017

Gene correction and the knock-in of reporter genes into the rat nestin and human DARPP-32 genes

Human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293T and U2OS cells, C6 cells and human adult dermal fibroblasts

Gaj et al. [114]

2017

Genetic disruption of Pdcd1 in CAR T cells

Primary human T cells

Purified human CD4+ or CD8+ T cells

Rupp et al. [115]

2017

Pcsk9 native, 5′ and 3′ and e-sgRNAs targeting mouse fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (Fah) and ROSA26 loci

HEK293 cells in human

Yin et al. [116]

2019

Short single-stranded DNA HDR donor

Mammalian cells: CD34+ HSPCs

Wu et al. [117]