A combination of polymorphic mutations in V3 loop of HIV-1 gp120 can confer noncompetitive resistance to maraviroc
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A Restriction Enzyme Based Cloning Method to Assess the In vitro Replication Capacity of HIV-1 Subtype C Gag-MJ4 Chimeric Viruses
Published on: August 31, 2014
Yuzhe Yuan1, Yosuke Maeda, Hiromi Terasawa
1Department of Medical Virology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Honjo 1-1-1, Kumamoto 860-8665, Japan.
Abstract:
Maraviroc binds to the pocket of extracellular loops of the cell surface CCR5 and prevents R5 HIV-1 from using CCR5 as a coreceptor for entry into CD4-positive cells. To evaluate the contribution of the V3 loop structure in gp120 to maraviroc resistance, we isolated maraviroc-resistant variants from the V3 loop library virus (HIV-1(V3Lib)) containing a set of random combinations of 0-10 polymorphic mutations in vitro. HIV-1(V3Lib) at passage 17 could not be suppressed even at 10 μM (>1400-fold resistance), while HIV-1(JR-FL) at passage 17 revealed an 8-fold resistance to maraviroc. HIV-1(V3Lib-P17) contained T199K and T275M plus 5 mutations in the V3 loop, I304V/F312W/T314A/E317D/I318V. The profile of pseudotyped virus containing I304V/F312W/T314A/E317D/I318V in V3 loop alone revealed a typical noncompetitive resistance, although T199K and/or T275M could not confer noncompetitive resistance. This type of library virus is useful for isolation of escape viruses from effective entry inhibitors.
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