title: Letter. In vitro phenotypic susceptibility to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors of HIV-2 isolates with the Q151M mutation in the reverse transcriptase gene.
abstract: In HIV-2 infection, many studies have reported a high frequency of selection of the Q151M mutation, but its impact on phenotypic susceptibility of HIV-2 isolates remains unclear. Four HIV-2 infected patients from the French ANRS HIV-2 cohort, with evidence of Q151M mutation in both plasma and available peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) co-cultivated supernatants, were selected. In vitro phenotypic susceptibilities to different nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) were determined using a PBMC assay. In HIV-2 isolates, the Q151M mutation alone impacts only the phenotypic susceptibility to stavudine and abacavir. A decrease in susceptibility to all NRTIs was observed when Q151M was selected with V111I, a mutation of unknown impact on HIV-1 resistance. Clinical relevance of these phenotypic susceptibility results needs to be evaluated in HIV-2 treated patients.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Damond
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Collin
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matheron
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Peytavin
authors.forename: Pauline
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Campa
authors.forename: Séverine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Delarue
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taieb
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bénard
authors.forename: Geneviève
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chêne
authors.forename: Françoise
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Brun-Vézinet
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Descamps
mesh_terms: D024921:Drug Resistance, Multiple, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000821:virology; D015498:HIV-2 / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics*; D010641:Phenotype; D012194:RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase / Q000235:genetics*; D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors; D012194:RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase