Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Vol 40, 847-853, Copyright © 1997 by The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
AM Been-Tiktak, CJ de Haas, L de Graaf, CA Boucher, J Verhoef, JC Borleffs, HS Nottet and R Schuurman
Unlike the selection of HIV-1 variants resistant to anti-retroviral drugs
in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells and T cell lines, induction of
resistance in monocyte-derived macrophages has not been widely studied.
Since macrophages serve as a potential HIV-1 reservoir in humans, knowledge
of the effect of anti-retroviral drugs on macrophage-tropic HIV-1 isolates
may help in the design of a strategy for prolonged suppression of viral
replication. In-vitro selection and drug susceptibility testing of
macrophage-tropic HIV-1 variants with reduced sensitivity to two
non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, atevirdine and delavirdine
(both bis- heteroarylpiperazines), is described here. The
atevirdine-resistant isolate was cross-resistant to delavirdine, and the
delavirdine- resistant isolate was cross-resistant to atevirdine.
Interestingly, the atevirdine-resistant isolate, but not the
delavirdine-resistant isolate, was also cross-resistant to nevirapin while
the inhibition of viral replication of both isolates in macrophages by
zidovudine was the same as that in the parental HIV-1 strain. Nucleotide
sequence analysis of the resistant macrophage-tropic HIV-1 isolates showed
that the atevirdine-induced resistance was due to a single amino acid
change at codon 106 and that the delavirdine-induced resistance could be
attributed to an amino acid change at codon 236. This study demonstrates
that monocyte-derived macrophages can be used to investigate the phenotypic
and genotypic acquisition of anti-retroviral drug resistance of
macrophage-tropic HIV-1.
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In-vitro selection of HIV-1 variants resistant to non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors in monocyte-derived macrophages
Eijkman-Winkler Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Utrecht, University Hospital, The Netherlands.
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