Mess up CCR2 using zinc finger nucleases and prevent HIV?

this is pretty cool...using zinc finger nucleases to mimic the protective effect of the CCR5delta32 mutation against HIV infection.
The fourth author has a hell of a first name!

Establishment of HIV-1 resistance in CD4+ T cells by genome editing using zinc-finger nucleases
Elena E Perez, Jianbin Wang, Jeffrey C Miller, Yann Jouvenot, Kenneth A Kim, Olga Liu1, Nathaniel Wang, Gary Lee, Victor V Bartsevich, Ya-Li Lee, Dmitry Y Guschin, Igor Rupniewski, Adam J Waite, Carmine Carpenito, Richard G Carroll, Jordan S Orange, Fyodor D Urnov, Edward J Rebar, Dale Ando, Philip D Gregory, James L Riley, Michael C Holmes & Carl H June
Nature Biotechnology 26, 808 - 816 (2008)

Abstract: Homozygosity for the naturally occurring 32 deletion in the HIV co-receptor CCR5 confers resistance to HIV-1 infection. We generated an HIV-resistant genotype de novo using engineered zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs) to disrupt endogenous CCR5. Transient expression of CCR5 ZFNs permanently and specifically disrupted 50% of CCR5 alleles in a pool of primary human CD4+ T cells. Genetic disruption of CCR5 provided robust, stable and heritable protection against HIV-1 infection in vitro and in vivo in a NOG model of HIV infection. HIV-1-infected mice engrafted with ZFN-modified CD4+ T cells had lower viral loads and higher CD4+ T-cell counts than mice engrafted with wild-type CD4+ T cells, consistent with the potential to reconstitute immune function in individuals with HIV/AIDS by maintenance of an HIV-resistant CD4+ T-cell population. Thus adoptive transfer of ex vivo expanded CCR5 ZFN–modified autologous CD4+ T cells in HIV patients is an attractive approach for the treatment of HIV-1 infection.