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Multiple V1/V2 env variants are frequently present during primary infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1.

Abstract：

:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) exists as a complex population of multiple genotypic variants in persons with chronic infection. However, acute HIV-1 infection via sexual transmission is a low-probability event in which there is thought to be low genetic complexity in the initial inoculum. In order to assess the viral complexity present during primary HIV-1 infection, the V1/V2 and V3 variable regions of the env gene were examined by using a heteroduplex tracking assay (HTA) capable of resolving these genotypic variants. Blood plasma samples from 26 primary HIV-1-infected subjects were analyzed for their level of diversity. Half of the subjects had more than one V1/V2 viral variant during primary infection, indicating the frequent transmission of multiple variants. This observation is inconsistent with the idea of infrequent transmission based on a small transmitting inoculum of cell-free virus. In chronically infected subjects, the complexity of the viral populations was even greater in both the V1/V2 and the V3 regions than in acutely infected subjects, indicating that in spite of the presence of multiple variants in acute infection, the virus does pass through a genetic bottleneck during transmission. We also examined how well the infecting virus penetrated different anatomical compartments by using the HTA. Viral variants detected in blood plasma were compared to those detected in seminal plasma and/or cerebral spinal fluid of six individuals. The virus in each of these compartments was to a large extent identical to virus in blood plasma, a finding consistent with rapid penetration of the infecting variant(s). The low-probability transmission of multiple variants could be the result of transient periods of hyperinfectiousness or hypersusceptibility. Alternatively, the inefficient transfer of a multiply infected cell could account for both the low probability of transmission and the transfer of multiple variants.

journal_name

J Virol

journal_title

Journal of virology

authors

Ritola K,Pilcher CD,Fiscus SA,Hoffman NG,Nelson JA,Kitrinos KM,Hicks CB,Eron JJ Jr,Swanstrom R

doi

10.1128/JVI.78.20.11208-11218.2004

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-10-01 00:00:00

pages

11208-18

issue

eissn

0022-538X

issn

1098-5514

pii

78/20/11208

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Multiple V1/V2 env variants are frequently present during primary infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1.