PMID- 16038481 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20050916 LR - 20091119 IS - 1359-6535 (Print) IS - 1359-6535 (Linking) VI - 10 IP - 4 DP - 2005 TI - Interactive selective pressures of HLA-restricted immune responses and antiretroviral drugs on HIV-1. PG - 551-5 AB - HIV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses mediated by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) recognition and antiretroviral drugs exert selection pressure on HIV-1 in vivo. The selection of CTL escape mutations strongly underpins the failure of CTL control in most untreated infections whilst drug-resistance mutations predict failure of drug control. These two evolutionary forces share common target residues in HIV-1 at which their selection effects could be synergistic or antagonistic, such that the propensity to develop drug resistance and virological treatment failure may be influenced by HLA type. We examined HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) and protease sequences in a large clinical observational cohort of 487 HIV-infected individuals and found evidence of site-specific interactions between specific antiretroviral drug exposures, HLA alleles and HIV sequence diversity at population level. Such interactions may have general and specific implications for explaining in vivo/in vitro discordance of drug resistance, host-specific susceptibility to drug resistance, individualization of therapy and therapeutic vaccine design. FAU - John, Mina AU - John M AD - Centre for Clinical Immunology and Biomedical Statistics, Royal Perth Hospital and Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia. FAU - Moore, Corey B AU - Moore CB FAU - James, Ian R AU - James IR FAU - Mallal, Simon A AU - Mallal SA LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - England TA - Antivir Ther JT - Antiviral therapy JID - 9815705 RN - 0 (Anti-HIV Agents) RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - EC 2.7.7.49 (HIV Reverse Transcriptase) RN - EC 3.4.23.- (HIV Protease) SB - IM MH - Anti-HIV Agents/*pharmacology MH - Drug Resistance, Viral/*genetics MH - Genetic Variation MH - HIV Infections/drug therapy/immunology/virology MH - HIV Protease/genetics MH - HIV Reverse Transcriptase/genetics MH - HIV-1/drug effects/*genetics/immunology MH - *HLA Antigens MH - Humans MH - Mutation MH - *Selection, Genetic MH - T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic EDAT- 2005/07/26 09:00 MHDA- 2005/09/17 09:00 CRDT- 2005/07/26 09:00 PHST- 2005/07/26 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2005/09/17 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2005/07/26 09:00 [entrez] PST - ppublish SO - Antivir Ther. 2005;10(4):551-5.