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ArticleViruses2014

Genetic diversity in HIV-1 subtype C LTR from Brazil and Mozambique generates new transcription factor-binding sites.

José Boullosa, Mahesh Bachu, Dulce Bila, Udaykumar Ranga, Theodoro Süffert, Tomoko Sasazawa, Amilcar Tanuri

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Article in Viruses, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

José BoullosaDepartment of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Avenida Carlos Chagas Filho, 373. Edifício do Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Bloco A, sala A2-121, Cidade Universitária, Cep: 21.941-902, Brazil. joseneto@biologia.ufrj.br.
Mahesh BachuJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, 560 064, Jakkur Post, Bangalore, India. bmahesh07@gmail.com.
Dulce BilaDepartment of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Avenida Carlos Chagas Filho, 373. Edifício do Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Bloco A, sala A2-121, Cidade Universitária, Cep: 21.941-902, Brazil. dulcebila@gmail.com.
Udaykumar RangaJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, 560 064, Jakkur Post, Bangalore, India. udaykumar@jncasr.ac.in.
Theodoro SüffertPrefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, 90010-170, Brazil. tasuffert@terra.com.br.
Tomoko SasazawaPrefeitura Municipal de Curitiba, Paraná, 80000-000, Brazil. tito@sms.curitiba.pr.gov.br.
Amilcar TanuriDepartment of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Avenida Carlos Chagas Filho, 373. Edifício do Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Bloco A, sala A2-121, Cidade Universitária, Cep: 21.941-902, Brazil. atanuri@biologia.ufrj.br.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro · BRJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research · INPrefeitura Municipal de Alto Alegre · BRPrefeitura Municipal de Curitiba · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The HIV-1 subtype C has been substituting the subtype B population in southern Brazil. This phenomenon has been previously described in other countries, suggesting that subtype C may possess greater fitness than other subtypes. The HIV-1 long-terminal repeat (LTR) is an important regulatory region critical for the viral life cycle. Sequence insertions immediately upstream of the viral enhancer are known as the most frequent naturally occurring length polimorphisms (MFNLP). Previous reports demonstrated that the MFNLP could lead to the duplication of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) enhancing the activity of the HIV-1 subtype C LTR. Here, we amplified and sequenced the LTR obtained from proviral DNA samples collected from patients infected with subtype C from the Southern Region of Brazil (naïve or treatment failure) and Mozambique (only naïve). We confirm the presence of different types of insertions in the LTR sequences of both the countries leading to the creation of additional TFBS. In the Brazilian clinical samples, the frequency of the sequence insertion was significantly higher in subjects experiencing treatment failure than in antiretroviral naïve patients.

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Binding SitesGenetic VariationGenotypeBase SequenceBrazilGene Expression Regulation, ViralHIV-1HIV InfectionsHIV Long Terminal RepeatHumansMolecular Sequence DataMozambiquePromoter Regions, GeneticTranscription FactorsTranscription, GeneticTranscription Factors

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PMID24960272
PMCPMC4074939
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