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Journal of Virology, September 2001, p. 8605-8614, Vol. 75, No. 18
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.18.8605-8614.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Sensitivity of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 to Fusion Inhibitors Targeted to the gp41 First Heptad Repeat Involves
Distinct Regions of gp41 and Is Consistently Modulated by gp120
Interactions with the Coreceptor
Cynthia A.
Derdeyn,1
Julie M.
Decker,2
Jeffrey N.
Sfakianos,1
Zhijun
Zhang,3,
William A.
O'Brien,4
Lee
Ratner,5
George M.
Shaw,2 and
Eric
Hunter1,*
Department of Microbiology,1
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,2 and
Department of Medicine,3
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
35294; Departments of Medicine, Pathology, and Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
775554; and Departments of Medicine,
Pathology, and Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School
of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 631105
Received 3 May 2001/Accepted 14 June 2001
T-20 is a synthetic peptide that corresponds to 36 amino acids
within the C-terminal heptad repeat region (HR2) of human
immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gp41. T-20 has been shown to
potently inhibit viral replication of HIV-1 both in vitro and in vivo
and is currently being evaluated in a Phase III clinical trial. T-649
is an inhibitory peptide that also corresponds to 36 amino acids within
HR2. This sequence overlaps the T-20 sequence but is shifted 10 residues toward the N terminus of gp41. Both inhibitors are thought to exert their antiviral activity by interfering with the conformational changes that occur within gp41 to promote membrane fusion following gp120 interactions with CD4 and coreceptor molecules. We have shown
previously that coreceptor specificity defined by the V3 loop of gp120
modulates sensitivity to T-20 and that a critical region within the
N-terminal heptad repeat (HR1) of gp41 is the major determinant of
sensitivity (C. A. Derdeyn et al., J. Virol. 74:8358-8367,
2000). This report shows that (i) regions within gp41 distinct from
those associated with T-20 sensitivity govern the baseline sensitivity
to T-649 and (ii) T-649 sensitivity of chimeric viruses that contain
sequences derived from CXCR4- and CCR5-specific envelopes is also
modulated by coreceptor specificity. Moreover, the pattern of
sensitivity of CCR5-specific chimeras with only minor differences in
their V3 loop was consistent for both inhibitors, suggesting that the
individual affinity for coreceptor may influence accessibility of these
inhibitors to their target sequence. Finally, an analysis of the
sensitivity of 55 primary, inhibitor-naive HIV-1 isolates found that
higher concentrations of T-20 (P < 0.001) and T-649
(P = 0.016) were required to inhibit CCR5-specific
viruses compared to viruses that utilize CXCR4. The results presented
here implicate gp120-coreceptor interactions in driving the complex
conformational changes that occur in gp41 to promote fusion and entry
and suggest that sensitivity to different HR1-directed fusion
inhibitors is governed by distinct regions of gp41 but is consistently
modulated by coreceptor specificity.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dept. of
Microbiology and Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama at
Birmingham, BBRB rm. 256, 845 19th St. S., Birmingham, AL 35294. Phone:
(205) 934-4321. Fax: (205) 934-1640. E-mail: ehunter{at}uab.edu.

Present address: ICN Pharmaceutics, Costa Mesa, CA
92626.
Journal of Virology, September 2001, p. 8605-8614, Vol. 75, No. 18
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.18.8605-8614.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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