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- Title
Accurately Measuring Recombination between Closely Related HIV-1 Genomes.
- Authors
Schlub, Timothy E.; Smyth, Redmond P.; Grimm, Andrew J.; Mak, Johnson; Davenport, Miles P.
- Abstract
Retroviral recombination is thought to play an important role in the generation of immune escape and multiple drug resistance by shuffling pre-existing mutations in the viral population. Current estimates of HIV-1 recombination rates are derived from measurements within reporter gene sequences or genetically divergent HIV sequences. These measurements do not mimic the recombination occurring in vivo, between closely related genomes. Additionally, the methods used to measure recombination make a variety of assumptions about the underlying process, and often fail to account adequately for issues such as co-infection of cells or the possibility of multiple template switches between recombination sites. We have developed a HIV-1 marker system by making a small number of codon modifications in gag which allow recombination to be measured over various lengths between closely related viral genomes. We have developed statistical tools to measure recombination rates that can compensate for the possibility of multiple template switches. Our results show that when multiple template switches are ignored the error is substantial, particularly when recombination rates are high, or the genomic distance is large. We demonstrate that this system is applicable to other studies to accurately measure the recombination rate and show that recombination does not occur randomly within the HIV genome.
- Subjects
HIV; GENOMES; RETROVIRUS diseases; IMMUNE response; DRUG resistance
- Publication
PLoS Computational Biology, 2010, Vol 6, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1553-734X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000766