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Implementation of In Vitro Drug Resistance Assays: Maximizing the Potential for Uncovering Clinically Relevant Resistance Mechanisms
Published on: December 9, 2015
Genetic mechanisms of resistance to NRTI and NNRTI
Vincent Soriano1, Carmen de Mendoza
1Service of Infectious Diseases, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. vsoriano@dragonet.es
Abstract:
Resistance to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) seems to develop following three different pathways. Discriminatory mutations favor the binding of physiologic nucleosides over that of drugs. The newly so-called nucleoside-associated mutations (NAMs) enhance the removal of chain terminators (pyrophosphorolysis) from the cDNA in formation. Finally, some inserts at the p6 region within the gag gene (i.e., PTAP duplications) may favor virus escape from NRTI through a greater accumulation of RT molecules per virion. In respect to nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), resistance often results from single mutations (K103N is the most frequently found) located at or near the drug pocket binding.
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