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ArticleJournal of virology2009

Functional consequences of human immunodeficiency virus escape from an HLA-B*13-restricted CD8+ T-cell epitope in p1 Gag protein.

Julia G Prado, Isobella Honeyborne, Ian Brierley, Maria Carmen Puertas, Javier Martinez-Picado, Philip J R Goulder

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Article in Journal of virology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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6 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Julia G PradoDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Isobella Honeyborne
Ian Brierley
Maria Carmen Puertas
Javier Martinez-Picado
Philip J R Goulder
Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol · ESIrsiCaixa · ESMedawar Building for Pathogen Research · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal · ZAUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/D009499/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/G008205/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The observed association between HLA-B*13 and control of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection has been linked to the number of Gag-specific HLA-B*13-restricted cytotoxic T-cell (CTL) responses identified. To date, the Gag escape mutations described that result in an in vitro fitness cost to the virus have been located within structural protein p24 only. Here we investigated the hypothesis that CTL escape mutations within other regions of HIV Gag may also reduce viral fitness and contribute to immune control. We analyzed an HLA-B*13-restricted CTL response toward an epitope in p1 Gag, RQANFLGKI(429-437) (RI9), where amino acid variation at Gag residues 436 and 437 is associated with HLA-B*13 expression. In this work, we assessed the impact of amino acid substitutions at these positions on CTL recognition and on HIV-1 fitness. We demonstrated that substitutions I437L and I437M largely abrogate CTL recognition and reduce viral fitness while variants K436R and I437V have only a marginal effect on recognition and fitness. Examination of the patterns of protein synthesis indicated that the loss of fitness in the I437L and I437M mutants is associated with the accumulation of unprocessed Gag precursors. A significant reduction in ribosomal frameshifting efficiency was observed with I437M, suggesting that this mechanism contributes to the observed reduced fitness of this virus. These studies illustrate the apparent trade-off available to the virus between evasion of CTL recognition in p1 Gag and the functional consequences for viral fitness.

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Virus ReplicationAmino Acid SubstitutionCell LineEpitopes, T-Lymphocytegag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusHIV-1HLA-B AntigensHumansMutagenesis, Site-DirectedMutation, MissenseEpitopes, T-Lymphocytegag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusHLA-B Antigens

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PMID18945768
PMCPMC2612351
OpenAlexW2161506007

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