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ArticleBioinformation2011

HIV-1 envelope accessible surface and polarity: clade, blood, and brain.

Gopichandran Sowmya, Gunasagaran Shamini, Sathyanarayanan Anita, Meena Sakharkar, Venkat Mathura, Hector Rodriguez, Andrew J Levine, Elyse Singer, Deborah Commins, Charurut Somboonwit and 6 more

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Article in Bioinformation, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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16 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Gopichandran Sowmya
Gunasagaran Shamini
Sathyanarayanan Anita
Meena Sakharkar
Venkat Mathura
Hector Rodriguez
Andrew J Levine
Elyse Singer
Deborah Commins
Charurut Somboonwit
John T Sinnott
Harcharan S Sidhu
Ganapathy Rajaseger
Peter Natesan Pushparaj
Pandajarasamme Kangueane
Paul Shapshak
AIMST University · MYTampa General Hospital · USKeck Hospital of USC · USRoskamp Institute · USUniversity of Glasgow · GBUniversity of Miami · USUniversity of Tsukuba · JP

Funding

NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL AIDS BANKU24MH100929 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI SINGER, ELYSE J · 2013 to 2023
$12.5M
NIMH NIH HHS U24 MH100929
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

unlabelledThe human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) gp160 (gp120-gp41 complex) trimer envelope (ENV) protein is a potential vaccine candidate for HIV/AIDS. HIV-1 vaccine development has been problematic and charge polarity as well as sequence variation across clades may relate to the difficulties. Further obstacles are caused by sequence variation between blood and brain-derived sequences, since the brain is a separate compartment for HIV-1 infection. We utilize a threedimensional residue measure of solvent exposure, accessible surface area (ASA), which shows that major segments of gp120 and gp41 known structures are solvent exposed across clades. We demonstrate a large percent sequence polarity for solvent exposed residues in gp120 and gp41. The range of sequence polarity varies across clades, blood, and brain from different geographical locations. Regression analysis shows that blood and brain gp120 and gp41 percent sequence polarity range correlate with mean Shannon entropy. These results point to the use of protein modifications to enhance HIV-1 ENV vaccines across multiple clades, blood, and brain. It should be noted that we do not address the issue of protein glycosylation here; however, this is an important issue for vaccine design and development. ABBREVIATIONS: HIV-1 - human immunodeficiency virus type 1, AIDS - acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, ENV - envelope, gp160 - 160,000d glycoprotein, gp120 - 120,000d glycoprotein, gp41 - 41,000d glycoprotein, LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratories, PDB - Protein Data Bank, HVTN - STEP HIV vaccine trial, AA - amino acids, MSA - multiple sequence alignment, ASA - accessible surface area, SNPs- single nucleotide polymorphisms, HAART - Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, CCR5 - C-C chemokine receptor type 5, CNS - central nervous system, HIVE - HIV encephalitis, P - polarity, NP - non-polarity, CTL - cytotoxic T lymphocyte, NIAID - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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accessible surface areabloodbraincladescompositional polarityENVgp120gp120-gp41 complexgp160gp41HIV-1Shannon entropytrimervaccine

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PMID21544164
PMCPMC3082861
OpenAlexW2064710696

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