Name: genotypic inference of hiv-1 tropism using population-based sequencing of v3
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Description: Watch this Scientific Journal Video about Genotypic Inference of HIV-1 Tropism Using Population-based Sequencing of V3 at JoVE.com

Development of this assay was supported by Viiv Healthcare and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and through a GlaxoSmithKline/CIHR Chair in Clinical Virology for Dr. Harrigan.
Support provided by Pfizer and ViiV Healthcare.

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P. Richard Harrigan has conflicts of interest with ViiV Healthcare, Virco, Merck, Abbott, and Quest. This video-article is sponsored by ViiV Healthcare.

The method presented here is a standard sequencing method applied to tropism testing. The clinical application of HIV envelope V3 loop sequencing to predict viral tropism has until late been limited. This method has been shown, in retrospective analyses of the maraviroc (ViiV Healthcare) clinical trials, to be at minimum equally able to predict viral tropism in comparison to other validated assays used clinically.
There are many benefits to performing genotypic analysis of the V3 loop for tropism prediction. First and foremost, this procedure can be performed at any facility with operational sequencing equipment, greatly increasing the accessibility and reducing the turnaround time of tropism testing. In comparison, the phenotypic Enhanced Sensitivity Trofile Assay (ESTA) (Monogram Biosciences), which has served as the gold standard for tropism testing, is performed at one centre in Southern California. Additional benefits include the requirement of less starting material and a minimum required plasma viral load of 500copies/mL. As well, the operational costs of running the genotypic assay are relatively low in comparison to those of a phenotypic assay. The use of the ReCall software in particular eliminates the requirement for manual sequence review, which tends to be a labour intensive part of genotype analyses.
The method presented here is fairly straightforward, with no particular step outweighing another in importance. We do suggest running PCR and sequencing in triplicate to increase the odds of capturing minority species within the viral population of a sample. Replicates greater than three can be performed, however we have found triplicates to be both efficient and reliable. We also suggest using the One-Step Reverse Transcriptase PCR Kit (Qiagen) which performs both RT-PCR and first round PCR in the same reaction while maintaining high sensitivity and specificity.

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genotypic inference of hiv-1 tropism using population-based sequencing of v3

Background: Prior to receiving a drug from CCR5-antagonist class in HIV therapy, a patient must undergo an HIV tropism test to confirm that his or her viral population uses the CCR5 coreceptor for cellular entry, and not an alternative coreceptor. One approach to tropism testing is to examine the sequence of the V3 region of the HIV envelope, which interacts with the coreceptor.
Methods: Viral RNA is extracted from blood plasma. The V3 region is amplified in triplicate with nested reverse transcriptase-PCR. The amplifications are then sequenced and analyzed using the software, RE_Call. Sequences are then submitted to a bioinformatic algorithm such as geno2pheno to infer viral tropism from the V3 region. Sequences are inferred to be non-R5 if their geno2pheno false positive rate falls below 5.75%. If any one of the three sequences from a sample is inferred to be non-R5, the patient is unlikely to respond to a CCR5-antagonist.

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Genotypic Inference of HIV-1 Tropism Using Population-based Sequencing of V3

HIV tropism can be inferred from the V3 region of the viral envelope. V3 is PCR amplified in triplicate using nested RT-PCR, sequenced, and interpreted using bioinformatic software. Samples with with 1 or more sequence(s) with low g2P scores are classified as non-R5 virus.

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