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Title: Recombination Rate and Selection Strength in HIV Intra-patient Evolution

Abstract

The evolutionary dynamics of HIV during the chronic phase of infection is driven by the host immune response and by selective pressures exerted through drug treatment. To understand and model the evolution of HIV quantitatively, the parameters governing genetic diversification and the strength of selection need to be known. While mutation rates can be measured in single replication cycles, the relevant effective recombination rate depends on the probability of coinfection of a cell with more than one virus and can only be inferred from population data. However, most population genetic estimators for recombination rates assume absence of selection and are hence of limited applicability to HIV, since positive and purifying selection are important in HIV evolution. Yet, little is known about the distribution of selection differentials between individual viruses and the impact of single polymorphisms on viral fitness. Here, we estimate the rate of recombination and the distribution of selection coefficients from time series sequence data tracking the evolution of HIV within single patients. By examining temporal changes in the genetic composition of the population, we estimate the effective recombination to be ρ = 1.4±0.6×10–5 recombinations per site and generation. Furthermore, we provide evidence that the selection coefficients of atmore » least 15% of the observed non-synonymous polymorphisms exceed 0.8% per generation. These results provide a basis for a more detailed understanding of the evolution of HIV. A particularly interesting case is evolution in response to drug treatment, where recombination can facilitate the rapid acquisition of multiple resistance mutations. With the methods developed here, more precise and more detailed studies will be possible as soon as data with higher time resolution and greater sample sizes are available.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Biological Systems Science Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
OSTI Identifier:
1627196
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396; PHY05-51164; X9R8
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
PLoS Computational Biology (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: PLoS Computational Biology (Online); Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1553-7358
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Mathematical & Computational Biology

Citation Formats

Neher, Richard A., and Leitner, Thomas. Recombination Rate and Selection Strength in HIV Intra-patient Evolution. United States: N. p., 2010. Web. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000660.
Neher, Richard A., & Leitner, Thomas. Recombination Rate and Selection Strength in HIV Intra-patient Evolution. United States. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000660
Neher, Richard A., and Leitner, Thomas. Fri . "Recombination Rate and Selection Strength in HIV Intra-patient Evolution". United States. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000660. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1627196.
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title = {Recombination Rate and Selection Strength in HIV Intra-patient Evolution},
author = {Neher, Richard A. and Leitner, Thomas},
abstractNote = {The evolutionary dynamics of HIV during the chronic phase of infection is driven by the host immune response and by selective pressures exerted through drug treatment. To understand and model the evolution of HIV quantitatively, the parameters governing genetic diversification and the strength of selection need to be known. While mutation rates can be measured in single replication cycles, the relevant effective recombination rate depends on the probability of coinfection of a cell with more than one virus and can only be inferred from population data. However, most population genetic estimators for recombination rates assume absence of selection and are hence of limited applicability to HIV, since positive and purifying selection are important in HIV evolution. Yet, little is known about the distribution of selection differentials between individual viruses and the impact of single polymorphisms on viral fitness. Here, we estimate the rate of recombination and the distribution of selection coefficients from time series sequence data tracking the evolution of HIV within single patients. By examining temporal changes in the genetic composition of the population, we estimate the effective recombination to be ρ = 1.4±0.6×10–5 recombinations per site and generation. Furthermore, we provide evidence that the selection coefficients of at least 15% of the observed non-synonymous polymorphisms exceed 0.8% per generation. These results provide a basis for a more detailed understanding of the evolution of HIV. A particularly interesting case is evolution in response to drug treatment, where recombination can facilitate the rapid acquisition of multiple resistance mutations. With the methods developed here, more precise and more detailed studies will be possible as soon as data with higher time resolution and greater sample sizes are available.},
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journal = {PLoS Computational Biology (Online)},
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volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2010},
month = {Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2010}
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First-line HIV treatment failures in non-B subtypes and recombinants: a cross-sectional analysis of multiple populations in Uganda
journal, January 2019

  • Poon, Art F. Y.; Ndashimye, Emmanuel; Avino, Mariano
  • AIDS Research and Therapy, Vol. 16, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12981-019-0218-2

Central memory CD4+ T cells are preferential targets of double infection by HIV-1
journal, November 2015


Evolutionary Biology for the 21st Century
journal, January 2013


Stochastic Simulations Suggest that HIV-1 Survives Close to Its Error Threshold
journal, September 2012


Broad CTL Response in Early HIV Infection Drives Multiple Concurrent CTL Escapes
journal, October 2015


Limits to the Rate of Adaptive Substitution in Sexual Populations
journal, June 2012


Within-patient mutation frequencies reveal fitness costs of CpG dinucleotides and drastic amino acid changes in HIV
journal, June 2018


On the unfounded enthusiasm for soft selective sweeps II: Examining recent evidence from humans, flies, and viruses
journal, December 2018


Dynamics of HIV-1 Quasispecies during Antiviral Treatment Dissected Using Ultra-Deep Pyrosequencing
journal, July 2010


HIV-1 Quasispecies Delineation by Tag Linkage Deep Sequencing
journal, May 2014


Pervasive within-host recombination and epistasis as major determinants of the molecular evolution of the foot-and-mouth disease virus capsid
journal, January 2020


Emergent Neutrality in Adaptive Asexual Evolution
journal, September 2011


Within-Epitope Interactions Can Bias CTL Escape Estimation in Early HIV Infection
journal, May 2017


Comparison of the Mechanisms of Drug Resistance among HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C
journal, December 2010

  • Margeridon-Thermet, Severine; Shafer, Robert W.
  • Viruses, Vol. 2, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.3390/v2122696

Running Loose or Getting Lost: How HIV-1 Counters and Capitalizes on APOBEC3-Induced Mutagenesis through Its Vif Protein
journal, November 2012

  • Münk, Carsten; Jensen, Björn-Erik; Zielonka, Jörg
  • Viruses, Vol. 4, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.3390/v4113132

Selection Pressure in CD8+ T-cell Epitopes in the pol Gene of HIV-1 Infected Individuals in Colombia. A Bioinformatic Approach
journal, March 2015

  • Acevedo-Sáenz, Liliana; Ochoa, Rodrigo; Rugeles, Maria
  • Viruses, Vol. 7, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.3390/v7031313

Inferring HIV escape rates from multi-locus genotype data
text, January 2013


The effect of interference on the CD8+ T cell escape rates in HIV
preprint, January 2014


Host-pathogen coevolution and the emergence of broadly neutralizing antibodies in chronic infections
preprint, January 2015