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Development and Validation of a Genotypic Assay to Quantify CXCR4- and CCR5-Tropic Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 (HIV-1) Populations and a Comparison to Trofile ® .
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Viruses [Viruses] 2024 Mar 27; Vol. 16 (4). Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 27. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- HIV-1 typically infects cells via the CD4 receptor and CCR5 or CXCR4 co-receptors. Maraviroc is a CCR5-specific viral entry inhibitor; knowledge of viral co-receptor specificity is important prior to usage. We developed and validated an economical V3- env Illumina-based assay to detect and quantify the frequency of viruses utilizing each co-receptor. Plasma from 54 HIV+ participants (subtype B) was tested. The viral template cDNA was generated from plasma RNA with unique molecular identifiers (UMIs). The sequences were aligned and collapsed by the UMIs with a custom bioinformatics pipeline. Co-receptor usage, determined by codon analysis and online phenotype predictors PSSM and Geno2pheno, were compared to existing Trofile <superscript>®</superscript> data. The cost of V3-UMI was tallied. The sequences interpreted by Geno2pheno using the most conservative cut-off, a 2% false-positive-rate (FPR), predicted CXCR4 usage with the greatest sensitivity (76%) and specificity (100%); PSSM and codon analysis had similar sensitivity and lower specificity. Discordant Trofile <superscript>®</superscript> and genotypic results were more common when participants had specimens from different dates analyzed by either assay. V3-UMI reagents cost USD$62/specimen. A batch of ≤20 specimens required 5 h of technical time across 1.5 days. V3-UMI predicts HIV tropism at a sensitivity and specificity similar to those of Trofile <superscript>®</superscript> , is relatively inexpensive, and could be performed by most central laboratories. The adoption of V3-UMI could expand HIV drug therapeutic options in lower-resource settings that currently do not have access to phenotypic HIV tropism testing.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1999-4915
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Viruses
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 38675853
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/v16040510