LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF HIV-1 CLADE C FITNESS

$170,747P20FY2009RRNIH

University Of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln NE

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Abstract

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. HIV-1 subtype C is currently responsible for the vast majority of new HIV-1 infections worldwide. The envelope glycoprotein of HIV plays the primary role in determining transmissibility by defining cellular tropism through receptor interactions, and by mediating fusion of virus to target cells. Yet very little is known about the relationships between Env evolution, viral fitness, transmission, and disease progression, in the context of subtype C in children. The hypothesis is that HIV-1 fitness correlates with Env properties and evolves longitudinally with changes in the Env, and that high fitness viruses are preferentially transmitted from mothers to infants where they mediate more rapid disease progression. The overall objective is to determine the role of viral envelope in mother to child transmission and disease progression in the infected children, and how it relates to changes in the Env sequences. We have previously longitudinally characterized the evolution of the HIV-1 envelope gene from a panel of subtype C HIV-1 perinatally infected children with different clinical outcomes from Lusaka, Zambia. We have created proviral and Env expression constructs containing subtype C Env sequences derived from these mother-infant pairs in an HIV-1 clade B (NL4-3) backbone. In addition, we have utilized the resulting chimeras to determine whether there are specific biological determinants/ functions of Env (processing, Env mediated fusion, incorporation into viral particles, viral replication kinetics, neutralization sensitivity and replication fitness ) that correlate with subtype C HIV-1 perinatal transmission or disease progression in these infected children.

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