title: Modeling and estimation of kinetic parameters and replicative fitness of HIV-1 from flow-cytometry-based growth competition experiments.
abstract: Growth competition assays have been developed to quantify the relative fitness of HIV-1 mutants. In this article, we develop mathematical models to describe viral/cellular dynamic interactions in the assay system from which the competitive fitness indices or parameters are defined. In our previous HIV-viral fitness experiments, the concentration of uninfected target cells was assumed to be constant (Wu et al. 2006). But this may not be true in some experiments. In addition, dual infection may frequently occur in viral fitness experiments and may not be ignorable. Here, we relax these two assumptions and extend our earlier viral fitness model (Wu et al. 2006). The resulting models then become nonlinear ODE systems for which closed-form solutions are not achievable. In the new model, the viral relative fitness is a function of time since it depends on the target cell concentration. First, we studied the structure identifiability of the nonlinear ODE models. The identifiability analysis showed that all parameters in the proposed models are identifiable from the flow-cytometry-based experimental data that we collected. We then employed a global optimization approach (the differential evolution algorithm) to directly estimate the kinetic parameters as well as the relative fitness index in the nonlinear ODE models using nonlinear least square regression based on the experimental data. Practical identifiability was investigated via Monte Carlo simulations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 630, Rochester, NY,14642, USA.
authors.forename: Hongyu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Miao
authors.forename: Carrie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dykes
authors.forename: Lisa M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Demeter
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cavenaugh
authors.forename: Sung Yong
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Alan S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Perelson
authors.forename: Hulin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002460:Cell Line; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005434:Flow Cytometry / Q000379:methods*; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development*; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D016018:Least-Squares Analysis; D008954:Models, Biological; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D009154:Mutation; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000821:virology*; D014779:Virus Replication / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*