German scientists have developed fundamentally new tactics of struggle against HIV
It is informed, that German scientists have developed and successfully tested fundamentally new tactics of struggle against HIV. Synthesized by them enzyme is able to reveal and destroy genes of the virus been built - in the DNA of infected cells.
Modern anti-retroviral therapy prevents HIV multiplication, but cannot destroy it completely. Other, more remote prospects are connected to development of preparations and vaccines blocking penetration of virus particles in a cell.
Destruction of a virus in cells already seized by it until recently considered an unrealizable task.
Synthesized by German researchers from Dresden Max Planck institute and Hamburg Institute of experimental virology and immunology enzyme named Tre-recombinase is able to identify a number of HIV - 1 genes in DNA of the infected cells and to modify them in such a manner that creation of new copies of a virus becomes impossible. Laboratory experiments have shown, that enzyme completely clears the infected HIV culture of human cells within three months.