Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Cell. 2013 Oct 24;155(3):497-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.09.039.
Classic studies proposed that stochastic variability ("noise") can drive biological fate switching, enhancing evolutionary success. Now, Ho et al. report that HIV's reactivation from dormant (latently infected) patient cells-the major barrier to an HIV cure-is inherently stochastic. Eradicating an incompletely inducible (probabilistic) viral phenotype will require inventive approaches.
经典研究提出,随机变异性(“噪声”)可以驱动生物命运转换,提高进化成功率。现在,何等人报告称,HIV 从休眠(潜伏感染)患者细胞中重新激活 - 这是 HIV 治愈的主要障碍 - 本质上是随机的。消除不完全可诱导(概率)病毒表型将需要创新方法。