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CRF19_cpx is an Evolutionary fit HIV-1 Variant Strongly Associated With Rapid Progression to AIDS in Cuba

  • Autores: Abrahantes Y, Aleman Y, Khouri R, Kourí V, Megens S, Moutschen M, Pérez AB, Perez J, Perez L, Pfeifer N, Pineda-Peña AC, Theys K, Van Laethem K, Van Weyenbergh J, Vandamme AM, Vercauteren J
  • Ano de Publicação: 2015
  • Journal: EBioMedicine
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4484819/%20

Clinicians reported an increasing trend of rapid progression (RP) (AIDS within 3 years of infection) in Cuba. Recently infected patients were prospectively sampled, 52 RP at AIDS diagnosis (AIDS-RP) and 21 without AIDS in the same time frame (non-AIDS). 22 patients were sampled at AIDS diagnosis (chronic-AIDS) retrospectively assessed as > 3 years infected. Clinical, demographic, virological, epidemiological […]
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Evaluation of the automatic editing tool RECall for HIV-1 pol and V3 loop sequences

  • Autores: Megens S, Schrooten Y, Vandamme AM, Vinken L, Van Laethem K
  • Journal: Journal of Virological Methods
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23748120

Genotypic drug resistance testing is routine practice in HIV-1 clinical care. The visual interpretation of sequencing electropherograms is labour-intensive and subject to intra- and inter-assay variability because decisions are based on operators’ judgments. In this study the performance of the automatic editing tool RECall was compared to the current standard of editing manually and editing using the tool ViroSeq.
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The rare HIV-1 gp41 mutations 43T and 50V elevate enfuvirtide resistance levels of common enfuvirtide resistance mutations that did not impact susceptibility to sifuvirtide

  • Autores: Balzarini J, Covens K, De Wit S, Kabeya K, Megens S, Dekeersmaeker N, Vandamme AM, Van Laethem K
  • Journal: Antiviral Research
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=The+rare+HIV-1+gp41+mutations+43T+and+50V+elevate+enfuvirtide+resistance+levels+of+common+enfuvirtide+resistance+mutations+that+did+not+impact+susceptibility+to+sifuvirtide

Mutations that are selected at low frequency and/or reside outside the enfuvirtide target region, amino acid 36-45 of gp41, might still be important determinants for drug resistance.
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Horizontal gene transfer from human host to HIV-1 reverse transcriptase confers drug resistance and partly compensates for replication deficits

  • Autores: De Baets G, Dekeersmaeker N, Li G, Megens S, Moutschen M, Rousseau F, Schrooten Y, Schymkowitz J, Vaira D, Van Laethem K, Vandamme AM
  • Ano de Publicação: 2014
  • Journal: Virology
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24889250

We investigated the origin and the effect of insertion D67D-THGERDLGPA within HIV-1 RT from a patient failing antiviral therapy. The insertion developed within the context of pre-existing NRTI and NNRTI mutations (M41L, L210W, T215Y and N348I).
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Characterization of amino acids Arg, Ser and Thr at position 70 within HIV-1 reverse transcriptase

  • Autores: Bernatchez J, Camacho RJ, Covens K, De Wit S, Dekeersmaeker N, Götte M, Megens S, Theys K, Van Laethem K, Vandamme AM, Vinken L
  • Ano de Publicação: 2014
  • Journal: Acta Clinica Belgica
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25103592

The amino acid position 70 in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) plays an important role in nucleoside RT inhibitor (NRTI) resistance. K70R is part of the thymidine analog mutations, but also other amino acid changes have been associated with NRTI resistance, such as K70E and K70G. In this study, we investigated the in vivo selection of the HIV-1 RT mutations K70S and K70T and their in vitro effect on drug resistance and replication capacity.
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