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S Pang1, H V Vinters, T Akashi
1Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California.
Abstract:
We investigated sequence variation in the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) env gene region that encodes the fourth disulfide-bonded domain of the external membrane glycoprotein, gp120, among three HIV-1 isolates from patients with AIDS-related neurologic disease. The sequences of HIV-1 isolated directly from brain tissue, blood cells, and in vitro cell cultures were compared. The results suggest that there may be many closely related HIV-1 genomes of several distinct subtypes in an HIV-1-infected individual. Differences were observed in the frequency distribution of sequence variants obtained from brain versus blood of the same individuals. Overall, the proportion of silent mutations is much lower than expected by random occurrence. Taken together, these results favor the possibility that selective forces may play a role in the tissue distribution of certain HIV-1 strains.
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