PMID- 18448538 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20080806 LR - 20231213 IS - 1098-5514 (Electronic) IS - 0022-538X (Print) IS - 0022-538X (Linking) VI - 82 IP - 13 DP - 2008 Jul TI - Comparison of G-to-A mutation frequencies induced by APOBEC3 proteins in H9 cells and peripheral blood mononuclear cells in the context of impaired processivities of drug-resistant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase variants. PG - 6536-45 LID - 10.1128/JVI.00554-08 [doi] AB - APOBEC3 proteins can inhibit human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication by inducing G-to-A mutations in newly synthesized viral DNA. However, HIV-1 is able to overcome the antiretroviral activity of some of those enzymes by the viral protein Vif. We investigated the impact of different processivities of HIV-1 reverse transcriptases (RT) on the frequencies of G-to-A mutations introduced by APOBEC3 proteins. Wild-type RT or the M184V, M184I, and K65R+M184V RT variants, which are increasingly impaired in their processivities, were used in the context of a vif-deficient molecular HIV-1 clone to infect H9 cells and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). After two rounds of infection, a part of the HIV-1 env gene was amplified, cloned, and sequenced. The M184V mutation led to G-to-A mutation frequencies that were similar to those of the wild-type RT in H9 cells and PBMCs. The frequencies of G-to-A mutations were increased after infection with the M184I virus variant. This effect was augmented when using the K65R+M184V virus variant (P < 0.001). Overall, the G-to-A mutation frequencies were lower in PBMCs than in H9 cells. Remarkably, 38% +/- 18% (mean +/- standard deviation) of the env clones derived from PBMCs did not harbor any G-to-A mutation. This was rarely observed in H9 cells (3% +/- 3%). Our data imply that the frequency of G-to-A mutations induced by APOBEC3 proteins can be influenced by the processivities of HIV-1 RT variants. The high number of nonmutated clones derived from PBMCs leads to several hypotheses, including that additional antiretroviral mechanisms of APOBEC3 proteins other than their deamination activity might be involved in the inhibition of vif-deficient viruses. FAU - Knoepfel, Stefanie Andrea AU - Knoepfel SA AD - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, Schlossgarten 4, 91054 Erlangen, Germany. FAU - Salisch, Nadine Christina AU - Salisch NC FAU - Huelsmann, Peter Michael AU - Huelsmann PM FAU - Rauch, Pia AU - Rauch P FAU - Walter, Hauke AU - Walter H FAU - Metzner, Karin Jutta AU - Metzner KJ LA - eng PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20080430 PL - United States TA - J Virol JT - Journal of virology JID - 0113724 RN - 0 (DNA Primers) RN - 0 (env Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus) RN - EC 2.7.7.- (reverse transcriptase, Human immunodeficiency virus 1) RN - EC 2.7.7.49 (HIV Reverse Transcriptase) RN - EC 3.5.4.1 (Cytosine Deaminase) RN - EC 3.5.4.5 (APOBEC Deaminases) RN - EC 3.5.4.5 (APOBEC3 proteins, human) RN - EC 3.5.4.5 (Cytidine Deaminase) SB - IM MH - APOBEC Deaminases MH - Base Sequence MH - Cell Line MH - Cytidine Deaminase MH - Cytosine Deaminase/*metabolism MH - DNA Primers/genetics MH - HIV Reverse Transcriptase/*genetics MH - HIV-1/*genetics/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Leukocytes, Mononuclear MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Mutation/*genetics MH - Sequence Analysis, DNA MH - env Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/*genetics PMC - PMC2447050 EDAT- 2008/05/02 09:00 MHDA- 2008/08/07 09:00 PMCR- 2008/11/01 CRDT- 2008/05/02 09:00 PHST- 2008/05/02 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/08/07 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2008/05/02 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2008/11/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - JVI.00554-08 [pii] AID - 0554-08 [pii] AID - 10.1128/JVI.00554-08 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Virol. 2008 Jul;82(13):6536-45. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00554-08. Epub 2008 Apr 30.