“…Investigations into the relationship between Tat protein and SIRT1, which plays a role in the activation of the p53 pathway leading to apoptosis in T-cells, [236,237,238,239,240,241,242] showed that Tat is able to inactivate SIRT1, thereby, activating the p53 pathway resulting in T-cell depletion [80,236]. This implies that SIRT1 could be used as a potential therapeutic target for inhibiting apoptosis [236].…”