Prakash Somi Sankaran, Kalra Rajesh, Lodha Rakesh, Kabra Sushil K, Luthra Kalpana
Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2012 May;28(5):505-9. doi: 10.1089/AID.2011.0206. Epub 2011 Sep 21.
Abstract We assessed the viral envelope (V3-V5 region) sequence diversity from 13 HIV-1-infected Indian children from north India. All of the 13 children were found to be infected with subtype C viruses. One of the viral sequences exhibited usage of the CXCR4 coreceptor predicted by Web PSSM and Geno2pheno tools. This virus also had a longer V3 sequence with 37 amino acids, a GRGQ motif, and a methionine residue before it (AIIMS_307). A unique finding was the complete deletion of the V4 region of another virus (AIIMS_363). High sequence diversity was observed in the envelope of the HIV-1-infected Indian children.
摘要 我们评估了来自印度北部13名感染HIV-1的印度儿童的病毒包膜(V3-V5区域)序列多样性。发现所有13名儿童均感染了C亚型病毒。其中一个病毒序列显示出Web PSSM和Geno2pheno工具预测的CXCR4共受体使用情况。该病毒还具有更长的V3序列,含37个氨基酸、一个GRGQ基序以及其之前的一个甲硫氨酸残基(AIIMS_307)。一个独特的发现是另一种病毒(AIIMS_363)的V4区域完全缺失。在感染HIV-1的印度儿童的包膜中观察到高度的序列多样性。