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Host sequence motifs shared by HIV predict response to antiretroviral therapy.

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BACKGROUND:The HIV viral genome mutates at a high rate and poses a significant long term health risk even in the presence of combination antiretroviral therapy. Current methods for predicting a patient's response to therapy rely on site-directed mutagenesis experiments and in vitro resistance assays. In this bioinformatics study we treat response to antiretroviral therapy as a two-body problem: response to therapy is considered to be a function of both the host and pathogen proteomes. We set out to identify potential responders based on the presence or absence of host protein and DNA motifs on the HIV proteome. RESULTS:An alignment of thousands of HIV-1 sequences attested to extensive variation in nucleotide sequence but also showed conservation of eukaryotic short linear motifs on the protein coding regions. The reduction in viral load of patients in the Stanford HIV Drug Resistance Database exhibited a bimodal distribution after 24 weeks of antiretroviral therapy, with 2,000 copies/ml cutoff. Similarly, patients allocated into responder/non-responder categories based on consistent viral load reduction during a 24 week period showed clear separation. In both cases of phenotype identification, a set of features composed of short linear motifs in the reverse transcriptase region of HIV sequence accurately predicted a patient's response to therapy. Motifs that overlap resistance sites were highly predictive of responder identification in single drug regimens but these features lost importance in defining responders in multi-drug therapies. CONCLUSION:HIV sequence mutates in a way that preferentially preserves peptide sequence motifs that are also found in the human proteome. The presence and absence of such motifs at specific regions of the HIV sequence is highly predictive of response to therapy. Some of these predictive motifs overlap with known HIV-1 resistance sites. These motifs are well established in bioinformatics databases and hence do not require identification via in vitro mutation experiments.

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BMC Med Genomics

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BMC medical genomics

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Dampier W,Evans P,Ungar L,Tozeren A

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10.1186/1755-8794-2-47

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Has Abstract

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2009-07-23 00:00:00

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1755-8794

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1755-8794-2-47

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Host sequence motifs shared by HIV predict response to antiretroviral therapy.