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ArticleAIDS research and human retroviruses2011

Sequence analysis of the dimerization initiation site of concordant and discordant viral variants superinfecting HIV type 1 patients.

Luzia Mayr, Rebecca Powell, Thompson Kinge, Phillipe N Nyambi

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Luzia MayrDepartment of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA.
Rebecca Powell
Thompson Kinge
Phillipe N Nyambi

Funding

VIROLOGY COREP30AI027742 · NIAID · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI MARMOR, MICHAEL · 1989 to 2010
$19.4M
Viral Evolution and Humoral Immune Response to Dual HIV-1 InfectionR01AI083142 · NIAID · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI GORNY, MIROSLAW K · 2010 to 2015
$2.6M
Improving Research Capacity in Cameroon for Studies on HIV-Associated MalignanciesD43CA153726 · NCI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI NYAMBI, PHILLIPE N · 2010 to 2014
$2.0M
Viral Evolution and Humoral Immune Response to Dual HIV-1 InfectionR56AI083142 · NIAID · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI NYAMBI, PHILLIPE N · 2009 to 2009
$407k
FIC NIH HHS TW001409NCI NIH HHS CA153726NIAID NIH HHS AI027742NIAID NIH HHS AI083142NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI083142
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Abstract

For HIV recombination to occur, the RNAs from two infecting strains within a cell must dimerize at the dimerization initiation site (DIS). We examined the sequence identity at the DIS (697-731 bp, Hxb2 numbering engine) in patients superinfected with concordant HIV-1 strains and compared them to those with discordant strains. Viral RNA in sequential plasma from four subjects superinfected with subtype-discordant and two subjects superinfected with subtype-concordant HIV-1 strains was extracted, amplified (5' LTR-early gag: 526-1200 bp, Hxb2 numbering engine), sequenced, and analyzed to determine their compatibility for dimerization in vivo. The concordant viruses infecting the two subjects exhibited identical sequences in the 35-bp-long DIS region while sequences from the discordant viruses revealed single nucleotide changes that were located in the DIS loop (715 bp), its flanking nucleotides (710 bp and 717 bp), and the DIS stem (719 bp). Evidence from in vitro experiments demonstrates that these in vivo changes identified can abolish dimerization and reduce recombination frequency. Therefore, these results revealing differences in the DIS of discordant strains versus the similarity noted for the concordant strains may contribute to the differences in the frequency of recombination in patients superinfected with such HIV-1 variants.

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DimerizationSequence Analysis, DNABase SequenceCodon, InitiatorGenetic VariationHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenyRecombination, GeneticSuperinfectionCodon, Initiator

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PMID21453132
PMCPMC3206772

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