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The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Volume 193, Number 3, February 5, 2001 375-386


Original Article

Clustered Mutations in HIV-1 gag Are Consistently Required for Escape from HLA-B27–restricted Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Responses

Anthony D. Kellehera, Chad Longb, Edward C. Holmesc, Rachel L. Allena, Jamie Wilsona, Christopher Conlonb, Cassy Workmand, Sunil Shaunake, Kara Olsonb, Philip Goulderb,f, Christian Branderf, Graham Ogga, John S. Sullivang, Wayne Dyerg, Ian Jonesh, Andrew J. McMichaela, Sarah Rowland-Jonesa, and Rodney E. Phillipsb
a Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit, Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DS, United Kingdom
b Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
c Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
d AIDS Research Initiative, Darlinghurst, New South Wales 2010, Australia
e Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 ONN, United Kingdom
f Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129
g Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Sydney 2000, Australia
h Virology, School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AH, United Kingdom

Correspondence to: Anthony D. Kelleher, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, 376 Victoria St., Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia. Tel:61-293-324-646 Fax:61-293-321-837 E-mail:kelleher{at}worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk.

The immune response to HIV-1 in patients who carry human histocompatibility leukocyte antigen (HLA)-B27 is characterized by an immunodominant response to an epitope in p24 gag (amino acids 263–272, KRWIILGLNK). Substitution of lysine (K) or glycine (G) for arginine (R) at HIV-1 gag residue 264 (R264K and R264G) results in epitopes that bind to HLA-B27 poorly. We have detected a R264K mutation in four patients carrying HLA-B27. In three of these patients the mutation occurred late, coinciding with disease progression. In another it occurred within 1 yr of infection and was associated with a virus of syncytium-inducing phenotype. In each case, R264K was tightly associated with a leucine to methionine change at residue 268. After the loss of the cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response to this epitope and in the presence of high viral load, reversion to wild-type sequence was observed. In a fifth patient, a R264G mutation was detected when HIV-1 disease progressed. Its occurrence was associated with a glutamic acid to aspartic acid mutation at residue 260. Phylogenetic analyses indicated that these substitutions emerged under natural selection rather than by genetic drift or linkage. Outgrowth of CTL escape viruses required high viral loads and additional, possibly compensatory, mutations in the gag protein.

Key Words: human immunodeficiency virus, immune escape, selection, CD8+ T lymphocyte, phylogenetic analysis


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