PMID- 33757299 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220202 LR - 20220202 IS - 1931-8405 (Electronic) IS - 0889-2229 (Linking) VI - 37 IP - 12 DP - 2021 Dec TI - Impact of Human Leukocyte Antigen-Associated Polymorphisms on Variability of HIV-1 Accessory and Regulatory Proteins. PG - 962-966 LID - 10.1089/AID.2021.0055 [doi] AB - HIV-1 escapes by acquiring mutations that differentially influence the course of infection. Unlike HIV-1 structural and enzymatic proteins, it remains elusive what extent the host immune-mediated selection pressure influences the variability of the accessory (Vif, Vpu, Vpr, and Nef) and regulatory (Tat and Rev) proteins. To address this, we analyzed the viral sequences encoding accessory and regulatory proteins from 446 human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-typed, chronically HIV-1 subtype B-infected, and treatment-naive individuals in Japan. We observed that Vpu and Vpr were the most and least polymorphic proteins with the average Shannon entropy scores of 0.63 and 0.38, respectively. Phylogenetically corrected methods identified a total of 161 HLA-associated polymorphisms; whereby Nef and Vpu had the highest (26.6%) and lowest (1.2%) proportion of amino acid sites associated with HLA-class I alleles, respectively. These results add further insight on the role of HLA-mediated selection pressure on HIV-1 sequence polymorphisms of HIV-1 accessory and regulatory proteins. FAU - Kamori, Doreen AU - Kamori D AD - Division of Infection and Immunity, Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. AD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. FAU - Hasan, Zafrul AU - Hasan Z AD - Division of Infection and Immunity, Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. FAU - Carlson, Jonathan AU - Carlson J AD - Department of Immunomics, Microsoft Research, Los Angeles, California, USA. FAU - Kawana-Tachikawa, Ai AU - Kawana-Tachikawa A AD - AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan. FAU - Gatanaga, Hiroyuki AU - Gatanaga H AD - Division of Infection and Immunity, Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. AD - AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. FAU - Oka, Shinichi AU - Oka S AD - Division of Infection and Immunity, Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. AD - AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. FAU - Ueno, Takamasa AU - Ueno T AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4852-4236 AD - Division of Infection and Immunity, Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20210430 PL - United States TA - AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses JT - AIDS research and human retroviruses JID - 8709376 RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - 0 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus Proteins) RN - 0 (Viral Regulatory and Accessory Proteins) RN - 0 (nef Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus) SB - IM MH - *HIV Infections/genetics MH - *HIV-1/genetics MH - HLA Antigens/genetics MH - Human Immunodeficiency Virus Proteins/genetics MH - Humans MH - Viral Regulatory and Accessory Proteins/genetics MH - nef Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - HLA class I OT - accessory/regulatory proteins OT - entropy score OT - polymorphisms EDAT- 2021/03/25 06:00 MHDA- 2022/02/03 06:00 CRDT- 2021/03/24 05:35 PHST- 2021/03/25 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/02/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/03/24 05:35 [entrez] AID - 10.1089/AID.2021.0055 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2021 Dec;37(12):962-966. doi: 10.1089/AID.2021.0055. Epub 2021 Apr 30.