Abstract
HIV infection is characterized by accumulation of proviral sequences within the human host genome. Integration of viral-derived DNA occurs at preferential loci, suggesting a site-specific crosstalk between viral sequences and human genes. We here describe a genome engineering workflow to generate models for HIV-1 infection that for the first time recapitulate proviral integration at selected genomic loci and provide unique tools to study effects of HIV proviral integration site choice. Using this workflow, we have derived two BACH2–HIV-1 reporter models that mimic largely latent integration in the clinically relevant BACH2 gene locus, which has been associated with recurrent integration and HIV-reservoir maintenance in chronically infected patients.
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