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Journal of Virology, April 1999, p. 3455-3459, Vol. 73, No. 4
Unité d'Oncologie Virale, Institut
Pasteur and Laboratoire de Recherche Antivirale, Hôpital
Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France
Received 25 June 1998/Accepted 18 December 1998
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) variants resistant to
protease inhibitors often display a reduced replicative capacity as a
result of an impairment of protease function. Such fitness-impaired
viruses display Gag precursor maturation defects. Here, we report that
some protease inhibitor-resistant viruses also display abnormalities in
the processing of reverse transcriptase (RT) by the protease. In three
recombinant viruses carrying resistant protease sequences from patient
plasma, we observed a marked decrease in the amount of mature RT
subunits and of particle-associated RT activity compared to their
parental pretherapy counterparts. We investigated the possibility that
a decrease in the amount of particle-associated mature RT could affect
the sensitivity of the corresponding virus to RT inhibitors. We
observed a twofold increase of sensitivity to zidovudine (AZT) when a
virus which carried AZT mutations was processed by a resistant
protease. Interestingly, the presence of AZT-resistance mutations
partially rescued the replication defect associated with the mutated
protease. The interplay between resistance to protease inhibitors and
to RT inhibitors described here may be relevant to the therapeutic
control of HIV-1 infection.
The efficacy of protease inhibitors
(PI) in suppressing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)
replication in treated patients, particularly when used in combination
with other antiretroviral agents, has been extensively documented
(3, 11, 14, 21). In the course of treatment, however,
resistant viral variants can arise in a fraction of the patient
population as a consequence of the accumulation of mutations in the
protease (8, 9, 13, 22-24, 27, 28). Most
resistance-associated mutations are not observed in PI-naive viral
isolates, suggesting that they confer a selective disadvantage to the
virus in the absence of drug (4, 18, 30). Accordingly, we
and others have described a significant reduction in viral replicative
capacity consecutive to the development of PI resistance (5, 10,
15, 16, 20, 26, 29, 31, 32). The observed reduction in
infectivity is due to a reduced cleavage efficiency by the resistant
proteases at several cleavage sites in Gag, which results in the
accumulation of partially cleaved precursor molecules in the viral
particles (20, 29, 31). Interestingly, resistant proteases
exhibit distinct processing impairment profiles, indicating that
specific resistance mutations differentially affect cleavage at
distinct sites (20, 31). Mutations in Gag cleavage sites
arise under the selective pressure of PI, both in tissue culture and in
infected patients. In particular, mutations that target the two
cleavage sites that surround the p1 spacer peptide were shown to
partially compensate for resistance-associated loss of viral fitness by providing better substrates for the mutated protease (12, 20, 32). Although Gag is the most abundant substrate of the viral protease, we previously described a marked reduction of
particle-associated mature reverse transcriptase (RT) in viral
particles processed by a ritonavir-resistant protease, demonstrating
that cleavage at sites in Pol can also be affected (31).
Here, we better characterize the reduction of particle-associated
mature RT in three PI-resistant viruses, and we analyze the effects of
this reduction on RT activity and sensitivity to reverse transcriptase
inhibitors (RTI). Additionally, we show that zidovudine (AZT)
resistance mutations in the RT can partially rescue the replicative
defect of a PI-resistant virus.
pNL4-3-derived molecular clones of HIV carrying inhibitor-resistant
proteases from plasma virus were compared to isogenic clones harboring
the corresponding pretherapy protease sequences. Procedures for PCR
amplification and cloning of protease sequences were as previously
described (20, 31). Three patients were selected based on
incidental evidence of possible reduction of RT quantity in viral
particles. We first evaluated the amount of the mature RT subunits (p66
and p51) in particles produced after transfection of HeLa cells with
the protease-reconstructed viral clones. Particle-associated material
was normalized for HIV-1 p24 antigen content in each virus pair and
analyzed by Western blotting with monoclonal antibodies that recognize
RT (Fig. 1A) or the Gag products MA and
CA (Fig. 1B). A significant reduction in the amount of both RT subunits
was observed for the three viruses that carry resistant proteases (Fig.
1A, lower panel). Such a decrease in the amount of mature RT subunits
is likely to contribute to the marked reduction in viral fitness
observed for these three viruses (20, 31). Interestingly,
two distinct RT maturation patterns could be observed, suggesting that
different mechanisms can lead to impaired RT processing. For viruses
402-post and 246-post, we observed a parallel reduction of both RT
subunits, indicating that cleavage at the RT internal site (which
separates the polymerase domain from the RNase H domain) was not
affected (Fig. 1A, lower panel). For virus 487-post, the p51 subunit
was almost completely replaced by a higher molecular mass product (of
approximately 56 kDa), suggesting that the virus 487-resistant protease
cleaved an alternative sequence in the RNase H domain more efficiently than the normal polymerase-RNase H cleavage site (Fig. 1A, lower panel).
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Effects of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Resistance to Protease Inhibitors on Reverse Transcriptase Processing,
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FIG. 1.
Virus particle-associated material in the supernatant of
transfected HeLa cells was analyzed by Western blotting with monoclonal
antibodies that recognize the RT subunits p66 and p51 (A) or the
gag-encoded MA and CA proteins (B). The top half of the
Western blot shown in panel A was deliberately overexposed to allow the
detection of the Gag-Pol precursor molecules. Arrows point to Gag-Pol
cleavage intermediates. The molecular mass marker (in kilodaltons) is
indicated for both panels A and B. Pre and post indicate that the viral
protease was cloned from a pretherapy or postresistance patient
isolate, respectively. neg, mock-transfected cells.
We expected that the reduction in the amount of mature RT in viral particles consecutive to reduced protease activity would be associated with the accumulation of uncleaved Gag-Pol precursor molecules. Instead, for the three virus pairs analyzed here, we found decreased amounts of particle-associated Gag-Pol precursor in viruses with resistant proteases (Fig. 1A, upper panel). Furthermore, in these viruses we observed either an increase (virus 402-post) in the intensity of a partially cleaved precursor band (Fig. 1A, upper panel) or a shift in the size of this cleavage intermediate (virus 487-post). Altogether, these observations suggest that the Gag-Pol precursor of resistant viruses may be less stable and can be processed with different specificity in the presence of a functionally impaired protease.
Consistent with our previous description, Gag cleavage was also impaired in the -post viruses, which were characterized by the accumulation of distinct Gag cleavage intermediates (Fig. 1B). In particular, cleavage intermediates corresponding to p41 (MA-CA) and p25 (CA-p2), as well as the full-length Gag precursor (GagPr55), were readily detected (Fig. 1B).
To evaluate the effect of improper cleavage of the RT subunits on RT function, we compared RT activity in viral particles carrying pretherapy or the corresponding resistant protease. To this end, HIV-1 p24 antigen and exogenous RT activity [on poly(rA)-oligo(dT)] were measured in the pelletable fraction of supernatant from transfected HeLa cells. A marked reduction in RT activity was observed for the 402-, 487-, and 246-post viruses (Fig. 2). No significant difference was observed for other resistant PR-reconstructed viruses analyzed (data not shown) for which the resistance-associated loss of infectivity was less intense and was associated only with Gag precursor processing defects. In all viruses studied, the reduction of RT activity correlated with the profile of particle-associated mature RT subunits.
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Considering that nucleoside analogue RTI are thought to act as
competitive inhibitors of RT in addition to their effect on DNA chain
termination (2), we reasoned that changes in the amount of
particle-associated RT could affect sensitivity of the virus to RTI.
Since the reduction of particle-associated RT is the consequence of
resistance to PI, such possibility would have interesting implications
given that current anti-HIV therapy regimens combine PI and RTI
treatment. We first compared the sensitivity to AZT of RTI-naive
viruses carrying pretherapy or resistant RT-maturation-impaired proteases. We used transfected HeLa cell supernatant to infect P4
(HeLa-CD4, LTR-LacZ) cells (7) to measure the 90%
inhibitory concentration (IC90) in a single-cycle assay.
Target cells were pretreated with increasing concentrations of AZT (0, 1.6, 8, 40, 200, 1,000, 5,000, and 25,000 nM) for 3 h and infected
in the presence of AZT for 24 h, after which cells were lysed and
-galactosidase activity was measured by a colorimetric assay as
previously described (31). The infectious titer for each AZT
concentration was compared to that in the absence of AZT, and
IC90 values for the six viral clones were calculated. As
shown in Fig. 3A, the presence of
resistant protease produced a reduction of 35 and 62% of the
IC90 for virus 402 and 487, respectively. A discordant
phenotype was instead observed for virus 246, for which we did not find
significant differences in the IC90 between the pretherapy
and the PI-resistant clone. However, this discordance could be
explained in part by the observed particularly high sensitivity to AZT
of the virus 246-pre (Fig. 3A). We next analyzed the effect of impaired
RT processing on AZT resistance level of a virus carrying AZT
resistance mutations. To this end, we inserted by site-directed
mutagenesis the typical AZT resistance mutations M41L and T215Y in the
RT coding sequence of the two molecular clones reconstructed with the
protease alleles from patient 402, producing the clones 402-pre-41/215 and 402-post-41/215. In the presence of AZT resistance mutations (Fig.
3B) the increase in AZT sensitivity due to impaired RT cleavage was
more pronounced (45% reduction in the IC90). Although
significant, such a reduction of the IC90 is not quite as
dramatic as the previously described resensitization to AZT consequent
to the development of the 3TC resistance mutation M184V in the presence
of AZT resistance mutations (17, 19, 25). In our assay,
addition of the M184V mutation to the 402-pre-41/215 viral clone
resulted in a 93% reduction of AZT resistance (Fig. 3B). Addition of
the M184V mutation affects all RT molecules and results in an almost
complete resensitization, while in the case of resensitization due to
reduced RT maturation, mature RT molecules should still be fully
resistant, leading to a milder resensitization phenomenon.
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Interestingly, the sensitivities to 3TC for virus 402-pre and 402-post were similar (data not shown), suggesting that the reduction in the quantity of mature RT molecules observed for virus 402-post more specifically affects HIV sensitivity to AZT. Similarly, resistance to AZT appears to be remarkably sensitive to associated mutations in the RT (17, 19, 25). Therefore, it could be that the function or the amounts of mature RT are particularly rate limiting in the AZT resistance phenotype, compared to resistance to other nucleoside analogues.
Comparing RT sensitivity of viruses 402-post and 402-post-41/215 revealed that the single-cycle infectivity of the viral clone 402-post was reproducibly improved in the presence of AZT resistance mutations. To quantify this phenotype, we analyzed in more detail the infectivity of the 402-derived viral clones in the absence of AZT (Fig. 4A). Consistent with our previous finding (31), virus 402-post displayed a marked reduction of infectivity due to the resistant protease (Fig. 4A). Interestingly, a twofold increase in infectivity was measured for viral clone 402-post in the presence of the M41L and T215Y mutations (Fig. 4A). These RT mutations had no effect on drug-free infectivity in virus carrying pretherapy protease (Fig. 4A). The rescue of infectivity was confirmed in a virus propagation assay. MT4 cells (106 cells in 5 ml) were infected with supernatant from transfected HeLa cells (corresponding to 30 ng of HIV-1 p24 antigen). Virus replication was followed by measuring the accumulation of HIV-1 p24 in the supernatant of infected cells for 10 days (Fig. 4B). The replication kinetics of virus 402-post was consistently slower than that of 402-pre. Such a delay was reproducibly but only partially compensated for by the AZT resistance mutations in virus 402-post-41/215, in agreement with the single-cycle data. Again, no significant difference was observed for virus 402-pre in the presence and in the absence of AZT resistance mutations. A possible explanation may be found in the previously described increase of RT processivity associated with some AZT resistance mutations, T215Y among them (1, 6). We reasoned that reduced amounts of RT per particle would be partially compensated for by a more processive enzyme. On the other hand, the increase in infectivity consequent to AZT resistance mutations was not perceptible when the viral precursor molecules were cleaved by a PI-naive protease, maybe because complete processing of RT by a wild-type protease provides optimal conditions for replication. The possibility that mutations in RT could improve cleavage by the resistant protease, reducing the infectivity defect, was ruled out since no increase in the virus-associated mature RT was detected by Western blotting analysis (data not shown).
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Although Gag precursor is quantitatively the prevalent substrate for the HIV-1 protease, the effect of impaired cleavage of viral enzymes could have considerable effects on viral replication. The three virus pairs studied here were characterized by a strong difference in infectivity between the pretherapy and post resistance protease-reconstructed molecular clones (20, 31). The relative impact of aberrant cleavage in Gag or Gag-Pol may be difficult to dissect. Only for virus 487-post did we know that the replicative defect was largely due to incomplete Gag cleavage, since we previously showed that mutations in Gag cleavage sites that improved processing also substantially rescued infectivity (20). It would be of interest to determine whether substrate adaptation could restore maturation of the RT subunits, as is the case for Gag domains. The alteration of cleavage specificity due to the development of PI resistance is particularly evident for virus 487-post. In this case, resistance mutations in the protease did not only affect the efficiency of cleavage at normal RT sites but also determined the preferred recognition of an alternative site in the RNase H domain and the almost complete absence of cleavage at the regular site between the polymerase and RNase H domains. The 487-post protease (obtained from a patient treated with saquinavir in combination with dideoxycytosine) contains five resistance mutations (L10I, M36I, G48V, I84V, and L90M), two of which target residues around the active site and could directly influence the affinity for different substrates. It is interesting to note that virus 246-post was also selected during saquinavir (monotherapy) treatment, but it displays a processing profile clearly distinct from that of virus 487-post. Virus 246-post harbors the resistance mutations M46I, G48V, and L90M. These observations and the previously described deleterious effect of the mutation G48V on precursor cleavage (20) suggest a role for the combination of the G48V and the I84V mutation in determining the modified cleavage specificity of virus 487-post. Analysis of protein profiles generated by protease carrying single resistance mutations could help in determining the residues involved in the recognition of the alternative cleavage site. Finally, the RT maturation profile of virus 402-post (obtained from a patient treated with ritonavir, AZT, and dideoxycytosine) is quite similar to that of the 246-post virus, although the accumulation of Gag cleavage intermediates clearly differentiates these two viruses. The protease of virus 402-post contains the L10I, K20R, M36I, M46I, A71V, and V82A resistance mutations, two of which (L10I and M36I) were present in the pretherapy virus as well, and the unusual F53L amino acid change.
Further elucidation of the interplay between resistance to PI and to RTI consequent to the altered functionality of the two enzymes could prove relevant to the therapeutic control of HIV-1 infection.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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We thank Olivier Schwartz (Institut Pasteur) for helpful discussion and for his help with protein analysis and Luc Montagnier for his support.
This work was supported in part by the Agence Française de Recherches sur le Sida (ANRS). F.M. is the recipient of a fellowship from ANRS.
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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Recherche Antivirale, IMEA-INSERM, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, 46, rue Henri Huchard, 75018 Paris, France. Phone: 33 1 40 25 63 59. Fax: 33 1 40 25 63 51. E-mail: mammano{at}bichat.inserm.fr.
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