title: Novel mutation (V75T) in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase confers resistance to 2',3'-didehydro-2',3'-dideoxythymidine in cell culture.
abstract: We have selected a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) mutant strain with a moderate (sevenfold) level of resistance to the nucleoside analog 2',3'-didehydro-2',3'-dideoxythymidine (D4T or stavudine). After serial passage of the HXB2 strain of HIV-1 in MT4 cells, a novel mutation involving two nucleotide substitutions in codon 75 of the viral reverse transcriptase, altering valine to threonine, was seen. When introduced into a wild-type HIV-1 background by site-directed mutagenesis, the T-75 mutation conferred cross-resistance to the dideoxynucleosides dideoxyinosine and dideoxycytosine as well as to 2',3'-didehydro-2',3'-dideoxycytosine.
authors.affiliation: Antiviral Therapeutic Research Unit, Wellcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Lacey
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Larder
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D000068679:Emtricitabine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives; D054303:HIV Reverse Transcriptase; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D012194:RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase / Q000235:genetics*; D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors; D018119:Stavudine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D016047:Zalcitabine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D015215:Zidovudine / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors; D015215:Zidovudine; D016047:Zalcitabine; D018119:Stavudine; D054303:HIV Reverse Transcriptase; D012194:RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase; D000068679:Emtricitabine; C075889:Racivir