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CORRESPONDENCE George M. Shaw: gshaw{at}uab.edu
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Abbreviations used: C.I., confidence interval; HD, Hamming distance; LTR, long terminal repeat; MRCA, most recent common ancestor; pn, nonsynonymous divergence; ps, synonymous divergence; sCD4, soluble CD4; SGA, single genome amplification; SIV, simian immunodeficiency virus.
© 2009 Salazar-Gonzalez et al.
Transmission of HIV-1 generally results from virus exposure at mucosal surfaces followed by virus replication in submucosal and locoregional lymphoid tissues, and subsequently, by overt systemic infection (1–7). Because of the inaccessibility of early sites of replication, the molecular details of HIV-1 transmission and early virus evolution remain largely unknown. Analysis of individual HIV-1 genes from viruses that are responsible for productive clinical infection in humans can be instrumental in elucidating viral properties and biological events underlying the transmission process (8–12). However, identification and characterization of full-length genomes from such viruses could go much further in elucidating, on a genome-wide basis, those properties of transmitted/founder viruses and their progeny that are essential for virus transmission and the establishment of viral persistence. This is true for naive individuals who become infected by HIV-1 and for subjects who are immunized with candidate HIV-1 vaccines but experience breakthrough infection (http://www.hvtn.org/science/1107.html).
Recently, we developed a mathematical model of HIV-1 sequence evolution in acute infection and an experimental strategy based on single genome amplification (SGA) of plasma vRNA/cDNA, followed by direct sequencing of uncloned DNA amplicons, that allowed us to infer the nucleotide sequences of full-length envelope (env) genes of transmitted/founder viruses in 98 out of 102 consecutively studied patients (11). The model assumes that a transmitted virus replicates exponentially with a generation time of 2 d (13), a reproductive ratio (R0) of 6 (14), and an RT error rate of 2.16 x 10–5 (15); that it diversifies under no selection; and that it exhibits a constant mutation rate across positions and lineages and undergoes no back mutations. These assumptions were based on estimated parameters of virus replication and a timing of virus sampling before the development of detectable immune responses (11, 16–20). The model predicts a Poisson distribution of mutations and a star-like phylogeny that coalesces to an inferred consensus sequence at or near the time of virus transmission. We obtained direct experimental evidence in support of this model in Indian rhesus macaques mucosally infected by simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) strain SIVmac251 (21) and in humans infected by HIV-1 from a known sexual partner (unpublished data) (9). In each case, an env sequence in the SIV inoculum stock or in the blood of a chronically infected sexual partner was found to be identical to that of the transmitted/founder virus identified in the recipient. We also tested the model by Monte Carlo simulation and against an empirical dataset of 3,449 SGA-derived complete env sequences (11). The results supported the model and its assumptions. Importantly, the model and the empirical findings allowed us to infer that in
70–80% of the cases of sexual transmission of HIV-1, a single virus (or infected cell) is responsible for establishing productive clinical infection, a conclusion now supported by studies in seven additional patient cohorts infected by HIV-1 subtypes A, B, C, or D (unpublished data) (8–10, 12). In the present study, we asked if the experimental strategy for identifying transmitted/founder env sequences can be applied successfully to full-length HIV-1 vRNA genomes, which are nearly four times longer than env genes (9 vs. 2.6 kb), and whether identification of such genomes can provide new insight into the biology of HIV-1 transmission, and the kinetics and pathways of virus diversification and adaptation leading to viral persistence.
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Study subjects
Plasma specimens from 12 adult subjects (10 male and 2 female) with acute HIV-1 infection were analyzed in this study (Table I). Nine subjects were infected by HIV-1 subtype B and three were infected by subtype C. At the initial sampling time point, 10 subjects were plasma vRNA+/Ab– (Fiebig stage II; the HIV-1 clinical staging system is discussed in references 11, 17), and two subjects were vRNA+/ELISA+/WB indeterminant (Fiebig stage IV). Three subjects were sampled longitudinally through as many as 85 wk of follow-up. Peak plasma viral loads ranged from 394,649 to 26,700,000 vRNA copies per ml. Four subjects admitted to heterosexual exposure as their only HIV-1 risk factor, and eight were men who had sex with men. No subject admitted to injecting drug use.
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2 goodness of fit test. Four sequences from three subjects exhibited G-to-A hypermutation. Once these were eliminated from the analysis, sequences from 11 out of 12 subjects conformed to the Poisson model (Table II). Sequences from subject ZM247F did not conform to a Poisson model of variation but did so once the two low diversity lineages evident in the phylogenetic tree (Fig. 1) were analyzed individually. We next investigated whether or not sequences evolved under a star-phylogeny model (i.e., all observed sequences coalesce at the founder) in the expected time frame based on Fiebig stage. Sequences from 6 out of 12 subjects, including each lineage in subject ZM247F, exhibited a star phylogeny (Table II). Among the samples that deviated from a star phylogeny were sequences from two subjects (CH40 and CH77) that exhibited early changes in potential or confirmed CTL epitopes corresponding to the HLA types of these subjects (see Goonetilleke et al. [22] on p. 1253 of this issue). When putative CTL escape mutations and rare shared polymorphisms arising from early stochastic nucleotide substitutions (11) were excluded from the analysis, sequences from the remaining six subjects conformed to a star phylogeny. We next analyzed the diversity among env genes within full-length genomes compared with a much larger number of env genes amplified as env-only sequences from the same subjects (Table S1). Because the latter sequences were amplified using different primers than were used for complete genomes, the first question posed was whether both sets of sequences coalesced phylogenetically to the same env (or envs) within each subject, as would be expected for sequences emanating from the same transmitted/founder viruses. This was the case in each of the 12 subjects. The second question posed was, given that there were fewer env sequences derived from full-length genomes available for analysis (an average of 11 per subject; median = 8) compared with env-only sequences (an average of 36 per subject; median = 34), were the estimated days since a MRCA comparable between the two datasets? Again, the answer was affirmative, with C.I.s for the MRCAs overlapping in every subject except one (Table S1).
For each subject, we examined gag, pol, env, and nef genes individually for levels of genetic diversity (Table S1). Within individual subjects, there was considerable heterogeneity among genes in their levels of variation, a finding largely attributable to relatively short gene lengths, small numbers of sequences examined, and the overall low degree of viral diversity present in acute infection samples. Three individuals lacked any variability in gag or nef sequences. The maximum pairwise HD was greatest in pol (6 in subject CH77) and env (6 in subjects 04013226-2 and CH77). Estimates of days since the MRCA varied among genes, with env and nef generally agreeing well with the estimates based on greater numbers of env-only sequences. Contrary to an earlier study (23), there was no evidence of greater variability in gag compared with env. Table S2 shows the total number of synonymous and nonsynonymous differences among all sequences for each subject and for each gene. There was an excess of nonsynonymous substitutions. However, when taking into account that most random replacements in a coding sequence are nonsynonymous (79%), the rate of synonymous divergence (ps) tended to exceed that of the nonsynonymous divergence (pn) for each gene suggestive of purifying selection. This difference did not reach statistical significance in the present study but did reach significance in a previous one where far greater numbers of sequences were available for analysis (11, 24).
Identification of transmitted or early founder viral genomes
Fig. 2 illustrates the phylogeny of full-length viral sequences from subject WITO4160 together with Highlighter plots depicting the positions and identities of nucleotide polymorphisms, insertions, and deletions across the genomes. Among the 18 WITO4160 sequences, no two were identical. Seven sequences contained a total of 15 mixed bases due primarily, if not exclusively, to Taq polymerase errors in the initial one or two cycles of PCR amplification. This experimental result (15 Taq errors in 18 genomes x 9,000 bp per genome x 3 DNA strands synthesized in the initial two complete cycles of Taq polymerization = 3 x 10–5) is consistent with the error rate reported for Taq polymerase of 2.7–8.5 x 10–5 (25). Excluding mixed bases (which are denoted by an International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry designation), single nucleotide insertions (C1, C10, B3, and C9), large deletions (G7 and C4), and G-to-A hypermutation (H3 and C3), each of the sequences differed from the others by 0–11 nt. Nucleotide substitutions exhibited a Poisson distribution and star-like phylogeny (Table II). The consensus of the sequences (WITO_fl.CON) was the same whether or not sequences containing double peaks were included in the analysis; this is an expected result because Taq polymerase errors, like HIV-1 RT errors, are essentially randomly distributed across the genomes. Out of the 18 genomes, 9 had intact open reading frames for all essential viral genes, whereas 9 others contained stop codons or insertions or deletions ranging in length from 1 to 1,329 nt. Fig. 3 illustrates in a second subject, ZM247F, many of the same features of early virus diversification, but from two transmitted/founder viruses rather than one. Each transmitted/founder virus in ZM247F was represented by a distinct low diversity lineage evident in both the phylogenetic tree and the Highlighter plot. Among all 13 sequences, no two were identical. 8 out of 13 sequences contained mixed bases at one or two positions. Nine sequences contained all essential open reading frames intact. 3 out of 13 sequences contained deletions of between 1 and 1,083 nt; one additional sequence contained a nucleotide substitution resulting in a translational stop codon. Neither APOBEC-related G-to-A hypermutation nor viral recombination between lineages was observed in these very early ZM247F sequences. Sequences comprising each viral lineage (with or without mixed bases included) coalesced to unique, unambiguous transmitted/founder genomes that differed by 2.36%.
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Genetic and biological analysis of transmitted/founder viruses
If early viral sequences coalesce to actual transmitted/founder viruses responsible for productive clinical infection, then we would expect three predictions to be borne out experimentally: (a) transmitted/founder env sequences inferred from full-length viral genome analysis must be identical to transmitted/founder sequences inferred from env-only (subgenomic) SGA analysis; (b) all essential viral gene open reading frames in transmitted/founder full-length genomes must be intact; and (c) inferred transmitted/founder full-length genome sequences must encode replication-competent viruses. We tested and affirmed all three predictions: first, consensus transmitted/founder env genes derived by subgenomic amplifications of env and by full genome amplifications were identical in each of the 12 subjects (Table II). Second, transmitted/founder complete genomes from each of the 12 subjects contained intact gag, pol (rt, pro, and int), vif, vpr, tat, rev, vpu, env, and nef open reading frames. Third, three complete HIV-1 clade C proviral genomes corresponding to transmitted/founder viruses for subjects ZM246F and ZM247F were constructed either by chemical synthesis or by PCR amplification of viral nucleic acid followed by cloning into plasmid expression vectors (Fig. 6 A). All three genomes (pZM246F-10, pZM247Fv1, and pZM247Fv2) yielded replication-competent virus after transfection and expression in human 293T cells. Each of the three virus strains replicated in activated primary human CD4+ T lymphocytes with kinetics and yields comparable to six control viruses (YU2, SG3, NL4.3, BaL, ADA, and JRCSF) (Fig. 6 B). Surprisingly, each of the three transmitted/founder viruses failed to replicate efficiently when passaged onto human monocyte-derived macrophages obtained from the same normal donor, whereas three prototypic primary macrophage-tropic control viruses (YU2, BaL, and ADA) used as positive controls replicated efficiently in both cell types (Fig. 6 B). This experiment was repeated four times using four different normal uninfected blood donors as the source of lymphocytes and monocyte-derived macrophages and using virus initially generated either in 293T cells or in activated human lymphocytes, each time with similar results. Seven molecular clones of full-length clade B transmitted/founder viruses were also generated as part of a separate study and were tested for replication in human cells (unpublished data). These transmitted/founder viruses replicated efficiently in activated CD4+ T lymphocytes but much less so in monocyte-derived macrophages.
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1 d) (13, 26–28). As a result, the genetic composition of plasma virus can change quickly and can provide a sensitive indicator of selection pressures acting on virus and virus-producing cells (16, 18, 20, 27, 28). These properties, combined with the identification of full-length transmitted/founder virus genomes, provided a unique opportunity to evaluate the kinetics and precise molecular pathways of HIV-1 sequence diversification and evolution on a genome-wide basis, because mutations could be mapped to specific viral genomes at or near the moment of transmission. In none of the 12 subjects did we find evidence of positive selection in viral sequences obtained before first antibody detection (i.e., before Fiebig stage III). Instead, we found evidence of selection against amino acid–conferring substitutions during this very early period, with pn – ps values tending to be less than predicted for neutral evolution (Table S2). This is an expected finding, because evolutionary theory predicts most nucleotide substitutions to be neutral or deleterious. Early sequence diversification was notable for a high proportion of defective genomes: 27 sequences had frame-shifting insertions or deletions; 3 sequences had large in-frame deletions 318–1,329 nt in length; 5 sequences had gene open reading frames that were truncated because of in-frame stop codons arising from nucleotide point mutations; and 4 sequences contained evidence of APOBEC-mediated G-to-A hypermutation. Collectively, 34 out of 108 sequences contained mutations that rendered virus progeny overtly defective. Even this high proportion of defective genomes is an underestimate of the actual proportion of viruses or proviruses that contain defective genomes, because we excluded amplicons <7 kb in length and we did not examine the integrated proviral DNA compartment directly. In a separate study, we have done the latter and have found that approximately two thirds of HIV-1–infected cells in acutely infected subjects harbor overtly defective genomes (unpublished data). We next examined sequences from a subset of subjects (CH40, CH58, and CH77) beginning at or near peak viremia (Fiebig stage II) and extending through 12–20 mo of follow-up (Fiebig stage VI). We did this first by identifying the transmitted/founder viral genome in each subject and then (using the same SGA-direct sequencing approach to avoid Taq-induced nucleotide substitutions and in vitro–generated recombination events) (12) by determining genomic sequences of plasma virus amplified as overlapping half genomes over the ensuing period (Fig. 5). In contrast to sequences obtained from subjects in Fiebig stage II, which generally contained few if any shared polymorphisms (Figs. 2 and 3; and Figs. S1 and S2), sequences from subjects at Fiebig stages V (CH40 and CH77) and III (CH58) exhibited shared polymorphisms and nonstar-like phylogenies (Figs. 4 and 5). This included nucleotide positions 2,625, 4,021, 4,104, 6,002, 6,021, and 7,285 in subject CH77; nucleotide positions 6,705, 9,360 and 9,371 in subject CH40; and nucleotide position 4,408 in subject CH58. By 32–45 d after the initial screening time point (labeled S in Fig. 5), clear patterns of nonrandom substitutions leading to nearly complete replacement of the transmitted/founder virus were evident in the sequences from each subject (Fig. 5). There was strong statistical evidence for positive selection in these highly focused regions that generally were embedded in epitopes that were early targets of the cellular immune system (22). The most rapid replacement of transmitted/founder virus sequences by mutant virus was observed in subject CH77, where within a period of 2 wk (between screen and day 14) nearly the entire replicating virus population in the body that contributed virus to the plasma compartment was replaced by viruses that shared concentrated mutations in two short regions, each spanning <30 nt in length, in tat and env. Equally remarkable was the finding that this mutant virus population in CH77 was in turn completely replaced by still another population that contained two additional sets of concentrated mutations in nef, with each again spanning <30 nt (compare day 14 and 32 sequences in CH77; Fig. 5). In these four discreet regions of selection in tat, env, and nef of subject CH77, we counted a total of 22 different nucleotide substitutions among the sequences at days 14 and 32. 20 out of 22 (91%) of these nucleotide substitutions were nonsynonymous. Selection for mutations was nearly as rapid in subjects CH40 and CH58 (Fig. 5), where such changes were first evident <9–16 d after antibody detection, which marks the end of Fiebig stage II and the beginning of stage III. Note in subject CH58 that selected mutations at positions 7,980 and 7,986 in env had begun to accumulate as plasma virus load was still increasing. Based on inspection of sequences (Fig. 5), it was apparent by 32–45 d after screen that selected changes had resulted in nearly complete virus replacement at two genomic loci in CH58 (both in env) and five loci in CH40 (in gag, vif, vpr, and nef). Again, it was notable that nucleotide substitutions in each of these seven discreet loci were restricted to spans of <30 nt, and 17 out of 18 (94%) distinct nucleotide substitutions were nonsynonymous. The combination of a very high proportion of nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions (>90%) concentrated in short spans of sequence (generally <30 nt) and affecting a high proportion of viral genomes (>90%) argues strongly for substantial selection pressure on the replicating virus quasispecies, a conclusion supported by formal statistical analysis and phenotypic testing (22). By 12–20 mo after infection, 17–34 discreet loci across the genomes showed evidence of strong mutational selection. Based on these findings, we concluded that the genetic imprint of a composite of host selection pressures influencing virus fitness in the critical period beginning at or near the moment of virus transmission and extending through the establishment of productive clinical infection and setpoint viremia had been captured in the sequences depicted in Fig. 5. In two companion studies, we show this genetic imprint to reflect both cellular and humoral immune responses (unpublished data) (22).
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The current study builds on recent studies that describe a model of HIV-1 evolution in acute infection (11, 21) and empirical analyses of early env gene or pro-pol gene diversification (8–12, 21). We sought to extend this work to an analysis of full-length HIV-1 genomes and to address five questions specifically. First, can methods for SGA-direct sequencing of plasma vRNA/cDNA env sequences be applied successfully to full-length HIV-1 genomes? The answer is yes, but because of the fourfold increased length of the amplified genome, shared nucleotide polymorphisms and mixed bases are detected approximately four times more frequently. Such sequence ambiguities or polymorphisms are predicted by the model (see the mathematical model in Materials and methods) (11) and can be problematic for the correct identification of transmitted/founder viruses. However, we showed in this paper that they could be reconciled by the analysis of sequential sequences. A second and third question posed was if early diversification of full-length HIV-1 genomes conformed to a model of random evolution and if the identification of transmitted/founder viruses and estimates of time to a MRCA based on full-genome analyses corresponded to findings based on env-only gene analyses? The answer to both queries was yes. We have corroborated these findings by additional studies where we identified the transmitted/founder virus from PBMC proviral DNA and plasma vRNA from the same individuals using primer sets that amplified complete viral genomes, 5' and 3' half genomes, and env-only genomes (unpublished data) (9).
We also asked whether transmitted/founder full-length sequences have intact principal gene open reading frames and if they encode replication-competent viruses, as would be expected of transmitted/founder viruses responsible for spawning productive clinical infection? Indeed, each of the 13 transmitted/founder genomes that we identified had intact gag, pol (rt, pro, int), vif, vpr, tat, rev, vpu, env, and nef genes. To determine if transmitted/founder genomes encoded replication-competent viruses, we selected three full-length clade C sequences for analysis. Obtaining full-length recombinant clones of proviral genomes whose sequences match exactly those of transmitted/founder viruses can be challenging because of errors introduced by Superscript III MuLV RT or by Taq DNA polymerase in individual HIV-1 genomic sequences. Further complicating the cloning of replication-competent virus is an inherent pathogenicity of some env genes when replicated in bacteria. We circumvented these problems by pursuing two different strategies. First, we chemically synthesized and subcloned the complete transmitted/founder proviral genome of subject ZM246F in three overlapping subgenomic fragments, none of which included an intact env gene. The three fragments were cloned into a low copy number plasmid vector (Fig. 6 A, top), which was grown at reduced temperatures and for shorter durations than normal to prevent spontaneous deletions or other inactivating mutations. As a second approach, we used the high fidelity Phusion DNA polymerase to amplify in two overlapping proviral half genomes (neither containing an intact env gene) from preseroconversion high molecular weight lymphocyte DNA each of the two transmitted/founder viruses of subject ZM247F (Fig. 6 A, bottom). This was followed by ligation and cloning of the complete proviruses into a low copy plasmid vector. The nucleotide sequence of each of the three proviruses was confirmed to be identical to the respective transmitted/founder viral sequences. Progeny viruses derived from 293T cells transfected with these three proviral clones replicated efficiently in activated primary human CD4+ T lymphocytes (Fig. 6 B, top). Surprisingly, none of the three transmitted/founder viruses replicated efficiently in monocyte-derived macrophages from the same donors (Fig. 6 B, bottom). This result was reproducible in lymphocytes and monocyte-derived macrophages from four different normal uninfected donors and was subsequently corroborated using viruses derived from full-length transmitted/founder proviral DNA clones from seven clade B subjects (unpublished data). We note that other investigators have previously observed that only a subset of primary R5 tropic viruses replicate efficiently in human monocyte-derived macrophages (30–33). These findings suggest that prototypic macrophage-tropic HIV-1 strains such as YU2, ADA, and BaL, which have frequently been used to model HIV-1 transmission, may not be representative of a substantial proportion of transmitted/founder viruses with respect to cell tropism. Our findings further suggest that during the initial stages of infection between transmission and peak viremia, replication of the transmitted/founder virus and its progeny in macrophages is unlikely to contribute substantially to overall virus production compared with lymphocyte-tropic viruses. This conclusion is consistent with other studies that have found that ostensibly "resting" memory CD4+ T cells (i.e., those lacking conventional markers of cell activation) and activated memory CD4+ T cells, and not macrophages, are the principal early targets of HIV-1 and SIV infection in humans and primates (1, 2, 7, 29, 34–36).
Other biological properties of the three transmitted/founder viruses that we studied included their sensitivity to a large number of Env-specific ligands (Table III). Viruses HIV-1pZM246F-10, HIV-1pZM247Fv1, and HIV-1pZM247Fv2 exhibited properties similar to viruses pseudotyped by other primary subtype B (11) or subtype C (37) HIV-1 Envs with respect to their CD4 and CCR5 dependence and sensitivity to the gp41 peptide fusion inhibitors T20 and T1249 and to the MPER mAb 4E10. Only HIV-1pZM246F-10 was sensitive to B12, and none of the three were sensitive to 2G12 or 2F5, likely because of epitope variation on C clade viruses. The coreceptor binding surface of diverse HIV-1 strains is antigenically conserved (38), as is the V3 loop (39, 40), but HIV-1pZM246F-10, HIV-1pZM247Fv1, and HIV-1pZM247Fv2 were resistant to CD4i (17b and 21C) and V3 (447-52D, F425-B4e8, and 3074) mAbs at concentrations as high as 25 µg/ml. When CD4i and V3 epitopes are exposed by sCD4 binding (38, 39) or in the context of HIV-2/HIV-1 Env chimeras (39, 40), the five CD4i and V3 mAbs neutralize viruses at IC50 concentrations between 0.001 and 5 µg/ml, indicating that the cognate epitopes are present but concealed in the native Env trimer (38–40). These findings suggest that CD4i bridging sheet and V3 epitopes on native clade C Env trimers are effectively shielded, as they are in native clade B Env trimers (11, 38–40). Finally, we found that 11 clade B and 22 clade C plasmas (all heterologous and containing high titers of CD4i and V3 cross-reactive polyclonal antibodies) (39, 40) exhibited low Nab titers against the three clade C viruses (IC50 < 1:40). This again suggested that the functional Env trimer on these transmitted/founder clade C viruses is effectively masked from antibody recognition.
The last question we asked was if the identification of transmitted/founder full-length genomes and their progeny could provide new insight into the kinetics and molecular pathways of HIV-1 diversification and adaptation leading to virus persistence? Between transmission and peak viremia (Fiebig stage II), we found that the virus diversified in an essentially random fashion, leaving no or little evidence of host-related selective pressures imprinted on its genome. 9–16 d later, evidence of striking selection on the virus quasispecies emerged in all three subjects studied, and by 32–45 d nearly the entire replicating virus population in each subject was replaced by viruses harboring mutations at two to five distinct loci (Fig. 5). In an accompanying paper, we model the kinetics and fitness costs associated with these rapidly evolving mutations and estimate the contributions of early CTL-mediated cell killing to virus containment (22). It is notable that for HIV-1 to establish early productive clinical infection (<3 mo from transmission), as few as two to five mutations were required across the entire transmitted/founder virus proteome. But for chronic persistent replication at 6 mo after infection, some 4–14 loci of mutational selection were evident, and by 12–20 mo this number increased to 17–34 selected sites. Elucidation of adaptive and innate immune pressures that act to shape the evolving virus quasispecies, ultimately affecting viral load setpoint and disease progression, is an important area for future investigation (22). Mapping mutations on a genome-wide basis against transmitted/founder virus sequences in recently infected individuals, including vaccine breakthrough infections, represents a unique strategy to explore the constellation of immune pressures acting on HIV-1 (8–12, 22), SIV (21), and other viral pathogens (41–43).
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Laboratory staging.
Plasma samples were tested for HIV-1 RNA, p24 antigen, and viral-specific antibodies as previously described (11, 17). The duration of the eclipse phase (the period between virus transmission and the detection of viral RNA in plasma) was estimated to be 10 d (range = 7–21 d) (11, 44–49).
Viral RNA extraction and cDNA synthesis.
Approximately 20,000 viral RNA copies were extracted using the QIAamp Viral RNA Mini Kit (QIAGEN) or the BioRobot EZ1 Workstation with EZ1 Virus Mini Kit (version 2.0; QIAGEN). Samples with low vRNA loads (200–10,000 copies/ml) were concentrated by centrifugation at 23,600 g for 1 h at 4°C before extraction. RNA was recovered from spin columns in a final elution volume of 60 µl. RNA was either frozen at –80°C or immediately used to synthesize cDNA. 5,000 (or fewer) vRNA molecules were reverse transcribed using SuperScript III according to the manufacturer's instructions (Invitrogen) and modified as follows. RT reactions were performed in 40-µl reactions. First, 15 µl RNA was mixed with 11 µl of a master mix A containing 0.5 mM of each deoxynucleoside triphosphate (dNTP) and 0.25 µM of reverse primer 1.R3.B3R (5'-ACTACTTGAAGCACTCAAGGCAAGCTTTATTG-3'; nt 9,611–9,642; HXB2 numbering) and incubated for 5 min at 65°C to denature secondary RNA structure. cDNA generated by reverse primer 1.R3.B3R served as a template for PCR amplification of a 9-kb or a 5-kb fragment corresponding to the 3' half viral genome. A separate RT reaction was performed using reverse primer B5R1 (5'-CTTGCCACACAATCATCACCTGCCAT-3'; nt 5,052–5,077) to generate cDNA that served as a template to amplify a 5-kb 5' half viral genome fragment. After denaturation, the tube was incubated on ice for 1 min. Then, 26 µl of the reaction mixture was combined with a master mix B–containing RT buffer (1x), 5 mM dithiothreitol, 2 U/µl of the RNase inhibitor RNaseOUT, and 5 U/µl SuperScript III. Tubes were then incubated at 50°C for 1.5 h. An additional 1 µl SuperScript III was added and tubes were incubated for another 1.5 h at 55°C. After the completion of the RT step, the reaction mixture was inactivated by heat (70°C for 15 min), followed by the addition of 1 µl RNase H, and incubated at 37°C for 20 min. The resulting cDNA was aliquoted and frozen at –80°C until further analysis or used immediately for PCR amplification.
SGA.
cDNA was serially diluted in replicates of eight PCR wells and subjected to nested PCR amplification with HIV-specific primers that yield a 9-kb fragment beginning at the first nucleotide of the U5 region of the 5' long terminal repeat (LTR) and extending to the last nucleotide of the R region of the 3' LTR. cDNA dilutions that yielded 40% or fewer PCR-positive wells were retested in 96-well plates to identify a dilution where <20% of wells were positive for amplification products. First-round PCR was performed in 1x Expand Long Template buffer 1 (1.75 mM MgCl2 final concentration), 0.35 mM of each dNTP, 0.3 µM of forward primer 1.U5.B1F (5'-CCTTGAGTGCTTCAAGTAGTGTGTGCCCGTCTGT-3'; nt 538–571), reverse primer 1.R3.B3R, and 3.75 U/µl Expand Long Template Mix (Roche) in a 50-µl reaction mixture. The PCR mixtures were set up in optical 96-well reaction plates (MicroAmp; Applied Biosystems) and sealed with MicroAmp adhesive film. PCR conditions were 94°C for 2 min, followed by 10 cycles of 94°C for 15 s, 55°C for 30 s, and 68°C for 8 min, followed by 25 cycles of 94°C for 15 s, 55°C for 30 s, and 68°C for 8 min, with cumulative increments of 20 s at 68°C with each successive cycle and a final extension period of 10 min at 68°C. Second-round PCR was performed by transferring 1 µl of the first-round product into a final volume of 50 µl of a reaction mixture containing 1x Expand Long Template buffer, 0.35 mM of each dNTP, and 0.3 µM of forward primer 2.U5.B4F (5'-AGTAGTGTGTGCCCGTCTGTTGTGTGACTC-3'; nt 552–581) and reverse primer 2.R3.B6R (5'-TGAAGCACTCAAGGCAAGCTTTATTGAGGC-3'; nt 9,607–9,636). PCR conditions were the same as for the first-round PCR. The amplicons were sized on precast 1% agarose E-gel 48 (Invitrogen). All products derived from cDNA dilutions yielding < 20% PCR-positive wells and >7-kb in length by analytical gel electrophoresis were sequenced. Because genomic length viral RNA is flanked by the R region of the LTR, only partial LTR sequences and near-complete viral genomes can be obtained in a single PCR amplification step. Specifically, the internal nested 5' primer (2.U5.B4F) corresponds to the first 30 nt of U5 (HXB2 nt 552–581), and the internal nested 3' primer (2.R3.B6R) corresponds to the last 30 nt of the 3' R region (HXB2 nt 9,607–9,636), thus rendering these two short stretches of 30 nt primer derived rather than virus derived. To determine complete transmitted/founder viral RNA/cDNA sequences that include viral sequences occupied by 5' U5 and 3' R primers, a separate PCR reaction was performed using primers located in the 5' R region and in gag. For this amplification, nested PCR primers corresponded to the 5' R (HXB2 nt 452–474 and 456–482) and gag (HXB2 nt 1,401–1,422 and 1,432–1,452), and a 1-kb amplicon was generated and sequenced. PCR reaction conditions were the same as for the full-length amplification except for a reduction in extension time to 1 min. Collectively, the resulting amplicons and sequences encompassed the complete HIV-1 viral genome. To amplify the complete HIV-1 genome in two partially overlapping 5-kb fragments, we modified the SGA procedure previously described for the HIV-1 env gene (11). PCR amplifications were performed in the presence of 1x High Fidelity Platinum PCR buffer, 2 mM MgSO4, 0.2 mM of each dNTP, 0.2 µM of each primer, and 0.025 U/µl Platinum Taq High Fidelity polymerase (Invitrogen) in a 20-µl reaction. First-round PCR primers for amplifying the 5' half genome were 1.U5.B1F and B5R1. PCR reactions were performed in MicroAmp 96-well reaction plates as follows: 1 cycle of 94°C for 2 min, and 35 cycles of a denaturing step of 94°C for 15 s, an annealing step of 55°C for 30 s, and an extension step of 68°C for 5 min, followed by a final extension of 10 min at 68°C. 2 µl from the first-round PCR product was added to a second-round PCR that included the 5' half genome forward primer 2.U5.B4F and reverse primer B5R2 (5'-CAATCATCACCTGCCATCTGTTTTCCATA-3'; nt 5,040–5,068). The second-round PCR reaction was performed under the same conditions indicated for the first-round PCR but with a total of 45 cycles. To amplify the 3' half genome, first-round PCR primers included B3F1 (5'-ACAGCAGTACAAATGGCAGTATT-3'; nt 4,749–4,771) and 1.R3.B3. The first-round PCR reaction conditions were the same as for the 5' half genome. Next, 2 µl from the first-round PCR product was added to a second-round PCR that included primers B3F3 (5'-TGGAAAGGTGAAGGGGCAGTAGTAATAC-3'; nt 4,956-4,983) and 2.R3.B6R. PCR conditions were the same as for the second-round amplification of the 5' half genome. All products derived from cDNA dilutions yielding <30% PCR-positive wells and >4-kb amplicons were sequenced. All PCR procedures were performed under PCR clean-room conditions (11).
DNA sequencing.
Amplicons were directly sequenced, aligned, and analyzed as previously described (11, 50, 51). APOBEC-associated G-to-A hypermutated sequences were identified and excluded from model analyses. The full sequence alignment is available as a supplemental data file (www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/sequence/hiv/user_alignments/Salazar), and sequences are available from GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ under accession nos. FJ495804–FJ496214, EU578998–EU579004, EU579006–EU579015, EU579018–EU579019, EU576471–EU576521, and FJ919955–FJ919967.
Mathematical model.
The model used in the present study has been fully described (11). Under this model, with no selection pressure and fast expansion, one can expect small samples from homogeneous virus populations to have evolved from a founder strain in a star-like phylogeny, with all sequences coalescing at the founder (11, 21). Occasional deviations from a star phylogeny are, however, expected. The sampling of 10 sequences, for example, from a later generation of an exponentially growing population with sixfold growth per generation (R0 = 6) has 4% chance of including a pair sharing the first four generations, 19% chance of including sequences that share three, and 75% chance of sharing two. With a predicted rate of mutations of approximately one per five generations for the full-length 9-kb HIV-1 genome, there is 75% chance of finding among 10 sequences 2 that share one mutation, 20% chance of finding 2 sequences that share a pair of mutations, and <2% chance of sharing more than that. These probabilities are slightly enhanced by early stochastic events that can lead to the virus producing less than six descendants in some generations but are diminished by the chances that mutations cause a fitness disadvantage that results in early purifying selection, as previously observed (11, 24).
Proviral DNA cloning.
To obtain an infectious molecular clone of the transmitted/founder virus from subject ZM246F, the entire 9.7-kb sequence was first inferred from SGA analysis of plasma viral RNA and then chemically synthesized in three subgenomic fragments of 4, 2.6, and 3.1 kb (Blue Heron Biotechnology). These fragments overlapped at unique NheI (HXB2 position 3,998) or DraIII (HXB2 position 6,600) sites, respectively, and were propagated in plasmid vectors. A 5' terminal MluI cloning site that was attached during chemical synthesis and a BamHI polylinker site at the 3' end of the genome were used for subsequent manipulation. To facilitate assembly of a full-length proviral clone, a unique MluI site was engineered by oligonucleotide adapter ligation between EcoRI and HindIII of pBR322. The 4-kb 5' fragment was then cloned in MluI-NheI of the modified pBR322 vector. After restriction enzyme digestion of this recombinant plasmid with NheI and BamHI, the full-length proviral clone pZM246F-10 was generated by simultaneous ligation with the 2.6-kb middle NheI-DraIII and the 3.1-kb 3' DraIII-BamHI fragments. The integrity of the entire proviral consensus sequence was confirmed by restriction endonuclease mapping, and finally, by nucleotide sequence analysis.
To obtain infectious molecular clones of the two transmitted/founder viruses from subject ZM247F, we used a high fidelity DNA polymerase and proviral DNA as a template to obtain both 5' and 3' half genomes, each with a complete LTR element. Primers were designed to correspond exactly to the transmitted/founder sequence as determined by SGA-direct amplicon sequencing. For the 5' half genome, the entire 5' U3-R-U5, gag, pol, vif, vpr tat1, rev1, and vpu, and part of env were amplified in a single-round PCR. For the 3' half genome, the entire 3' U5-R-U3, nef, tat2, and rev2, and the remainder of env were amplified. High molecular weight genomic DNA was isolated from PBMCs obtained on the same day that plasma virus was used to identify the two unique transmitted/founder virus lineages. The complete proviral genomes corresponding to both virus lineages were amplified and cloned in two overlapping halves encompassing a unique restriction site, PacI. Single-round PCR amplification was performed in the presence of 1x Phusion Hot Start HF Buffer, 0.2 mM of each dNTP, 0.5 µM of each primer, 3% final concentration of DMSO, and 0.02 U/µl Phusion Hot Start High Fidelity DNA polymerase (New England Biolabs, Inc.) in a 40-µl reaction. PCR primers for the variant 1 are V15'F (5'-TGGAAGGGTTAATTTACTCCAAGAAAAGG-3'; nt 1–29; HXB2 numbering) and V15'R (5'-CACTGTCTTCTGCCCTTTCTCTAATTCTTT-3'; nt 6,192–6,221), and V13'F (5'-TAGGAAATTGGTAAGACAAAGAAAAATAGACTGG-3'; nt 6,151–6,184) and V13'R (5'-TGCTAGAGATTTTCCACACTACCAAAATGG-3'; nt 9,689-del-9,719). PCR primers for variant 2 are V25'F (5'-TGGAAGGGTTAGTTTACTCCAAGAAAAGG-3'; nt 1–29) and V25'R (5'-CATGGTGTTGGTATTATTGCTGGTAGCAG-3; nt 6,643-del-6,686), and V23'F (5'-GGCTCCATAGCTTAGGGCAACATATCTATA-3'; nt 5,671–5,700) and V23'R (5'-TGCTAGAGATTTTCCACACTACCAAAATGG-3'; nt 9,689-del-9,719). PCR was performed under the following conditions: 1 cycle of 99°C for 1 min, and 35 cycles of 99°C for 8 s, 65°C for 30 s, and a 72°C extension for 4 min, followed by a final extension of 72°C for 10 min. Correctly sized fragments (6 kb for 5' and 4 kb for 3') were identified by gel electrophoresis. An adenine overhang was added to each purified fragment using Taq polymerase with 1x buffer (Promega) and 0.2 mM of each dNTP incubated at 94°C for 2 min followed by a single extension of 72°C for 10 min. Each half genome was then independently T/A cloned into the TOPO-XL vector (Invitrogen) and transformed into XL2-Blue MRF competent bacteria (Agilent Technologies). Bacteria were plated on lysogeny broth (LB) agar plates supplemented with 50 µg/ml kanamycin and cultured overnight at 30°C. Single colonies were selected and grown overnight in liquid LB at 30°C with 225-rpm shaking followed by plasmid isolation. Each molecular clone was sequence confirmed to be identical to the transmitted/founder viral sequence for each lineage. The 5' clone for each lineage was ligated to the cognate 3'-XL vector by using PacI and MluI (variant 1) or NotI (variant 2) restriction digestion and ligation (New England Biolabs Inc.), thereby generating the infectious clones for lineage 1 (pZM247Fv1) and lineage 2 (pZM247Fv25).
Virus phenotypic analysis.
The ability of cloned viral genomes to express replication-competent virus was assessed using 293T cells for DNA transfection and primary human CD4+ lymphocytes, monocyte-derived macrophages, and JC53BL-13 cells (TZM-bl; National Institutes of Health AIDS Research and Reference Reagent Program) as target cells, as previously described (20, 52–54). Virus neutralization by Env-specific antibodies and ligands was similarly tested as previously described (11, 20, 38, 52). All samples were tested in duplicate and all experiments were repeated at least three times to ensure reproducibility.
Virus replication was assessed in activated primary human CD4+ T cells and in monocyte-derived macrophages obtained from the same normal human donors. Peripheral blood was collected into ACD-A anticoagulant by venipuncture and mononuclear cells (PBMCs) purified by standard Ficoll-Hypaque density gradient methods. For CD4+ T cell isolation, PBMCs were incubated with human anti-CD4–coated magnetic beads (Militenyi Biotec) and positively selected using a cell separator (autoMACS; Militenyi Biotec). They were then incubated in 10-cm polystyrene tissue culture plates for 2 h at 37°C in HBSS with 10 mM Ca2+ and Mg2+ to remove adherent monocytes. Nonadherent cells were collected, washed in RPMI 1640 plus 15% FBS, and resuspended at 106 cells/ml in RPMI 1640 plus 15% FBS with 3 µg/ml staphyloccocal enterotoxin B (Sigma-Aldrich) for 48 h at 37°C to activate the lymphocytes. 5 x 105 cells were incubated with 50,000 IU of virus overnight at 37°C in 300 µl RPMI 1640 with 15% FBS. Cells were washed three times and plated in 24-well polystyrene tissue culture plates in a volume of 2 ml RPMI 1640 with 15% FBS and 30 U IL-2/ml. 60 µl of media was removed for day 1 p24 and RT baseline analysis. Every 3 d, 60 µl of media was removed and frozen for p24/RT analysis and half of the media was removed from each well and replaced with fresh media. For monocyte-derived macrophage isolation, 3 x 106 PBMCs per well were plated in 24-well plates in HBSS plus 10 mM Ca2+ and Mg2+ plus 10% human AB serum (Sigma-Aldrich) and incubated at 37°C for 2 h. Nonadherent cells were removed and DMEM with 10% giant cell tumor (GCT)–conditioned media (Irvine Scientific) plus 10% human AB serum was added to wells with 5 U/ml rhMCSF (R&D Systems). After 3 d of incubation, wells were washed vigorously with PBS three times, and media containing DMEM with 10% GCT, 10% FBS, and 5 U rhMCSF was added to wells. After an additional 3 d of incubation, media was removed and macrophages were incubated with 100,000 IU of virus in 300 µl per well. After a 2-h incubation, 500 µl of media was added per well. After overnight incubation, each well was washed three times, 1.5 ml of media was added, and 60 µl of media was removed for day 1 p24/RT baseline analysis. Every 3 d, 60 µl of culture supernatant was removed and frozen for p24/RT analysis, whereas the remainder of the media was removed from each well and replaced with 1.5 ml of fresh media. Cultures were continued for 16 d.
Online supplemental material.
Fig. S1 shows phylogenetic and Highlighter analyses of HIV-1 sequences from subjects SUMA0847, TRJO4551, 04013396-0, and ZM249M. Fig. S2 shows phylogenetic and Highlighter analyses of HIV-1 sequences from subjects ZM246F, CH58, 04013226-2, and WEAU0575. Fig. S3 shows nucleotide sequence alignments of polymorphic regions in env and nef in early samples from subject CH40. Fig. S4 shows nucleotide sequence alignments of polymorphic regions in tat and env in early samples from subject CH77. Fig. S5 shows nucleotide sequence alignments of polymorphic regions in pol in early samples from subject CH77. Fig. S6 shows nucleotide sequence alignments of polymorphic regions in pol in early samples from subject CH58. Table S1 shows nucleotide gene diversity in four protein-coding regions in early progeny of transmitted/early founder viruses. Table S2 provides an analysis of pn and ps for gag, pol, env, and nef. Online supplemental material is available at http://www.jem.org/cgi/content/full/jem.20090378/DC1.
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This work was supported by the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and by grants from the National Institutes of Health (AI067854, AI061734, and AI27767) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (37874).
The authors have no conflicting financial interests.
Submitted: 17 February 2009
Accepted: 1 May 2009
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