bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.20.427543; this version posted January 22, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. A two-color haploid genetic screen identifies novel host factors involved in HIV latency Running Title: Identification of novel HIV latency host factors. Authors: Michael D Röling1, Mahsa Mollapour Sisakht1#, Enrico Ne1#, Panagiotis Moulos2#, Mateusz Stoszko1, Elisa De Crignis1, Helen Bodmer1, Tsung Wai Kan1, Maryam Akbarzadeh1, Vaggelis Harokopos2, Pantelis Hatzis2, Robert-Jan Palstra1*, Tokameh Mahmoudi1* # authors contributed equally Affiliations: 1 Department of Biochemistry, Erasmus University Medical Center, Ee634 PO Box 2040 3000CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2 Institute for Fundamental Biomedical Research, Biomedical Sciences Research Center, Alexander Fleming', Fleming, Fleming Street 34, 16672, Vari, Greece * Correspondence to: Tokameh Mahmoudi:
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[email protected] Phone N: +31 (0)107043323, Fax N: +31(0)10704747 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.20.427543; this version posted January 22, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Abstract To identify novel host factors as putative targets to reverse HIV latency, we performed an insertional mutagenesis genetic screen in a latently HIV-1-infected pseudo-haploid KBM7 cell line (Hap-Lat).