Interesting back-to-back papers from the Varani Group in @narjournal.bsky.social showing that an approved kinase inhibitor can specifically bind the HIV-1 TAR RNA element and influence its downstream function. A promising direction!
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Abstract. We report that the kinase inhibitor Palbociclib is a very low nanomolar ligand for the HIV-1 TAR, a paradigmatic ‘difficult-to-drug’ RNA. Binding