Evaluation of the HIV-1 polymerase gene sequence diversity for prediction of recent HIV-1 infections using Shannon entropy analysis

dc.contributor.authorNkone, Paballo
dc.contributor.authorLoubser, Shayne
dc.contributor.authorQuinn, Thomas C.
dc.contributor.authorRedd, Andrew D.
dc.contributor.authorLaeyendecker, Oliver
dc.contributor.authorTiemessen, Caroline T.
dc.contributor.authorMayaphi, Simnikiwe Horatious
dc.contributor.emailsim.mayaphi@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-24T10:31:07Z
dc.date.available2023-10-24T10:31:07Z
dc.date.issued2022-07-21
dc.descriptionSUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS : TABLE S1: List of articles from which HIV-1 subtype C reference sequences were obtained; Supplementary TABLE S2: Nucleotide differences within amino acid mutations found to have a different distribution between recent and chronic infection sequences; FIGURE S1: Amino acid sequence alignment to show the difference in sequences between recent and chronic HIV-1 infection; FIGURE S2: Comparison of differences in amino acids E628 and R629 in study sequences and non-subtype C reference sequences, for recent and chronic sequences.en_US
dc.descriptionDATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT : All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this manuscript and its supplementary information files.en_US
dc.description.abstractHIV-1 incidence is an important parameter for assessing the impact of HIV-1 interventions. The aim of this study was to evaluate HIV-1 polymerase (pol) gene sequence diversity for the prediction of recent HIV-1 infections. Complete pol Sanger sequences obtained from 45 participants confirmed to have recent or chronic HIV-1 infection were used. Shannon entropy was calculated for amino acid (aa) sequences for the entire pol and for sliding windows consisting of 50 aa each. Entropy scores for the complete HIV-1 pol were significantly higher in chronic compared to recent HIV-1 infections (p < 0.0001) and the same pattern was observed for some sliding windows (p-values ranging from 0.011 to <0.001), leading to the identification of some aa mutations that could discriminate between recent and chronic infection. Different aa mutation groups were assessed for predicting recent infection and their performance ranged from 64.3% to 100% but had a high false recency rate (FRR), which was decreased to 19.4% when another amino acid mutation (M456) was included in the analysis. The pol-based molecular method identified in this study would not be ideal for use on its own due to high FRR; however, this method could be considered for complementing existing serological assays to further reduce FRR.en_US
dc.description.departmentMedical Virologyen_US
dc.description.librarianam2023en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe National Research Foundation (NRF), Poliomyelitis Research Foundation, Discovery Foundation, National Health Laboratory Service Research Trust (NHLS-RT), South African Medical Research Council Self-Initiated Research (MRC-SIR), University of Pretoria Faculty of Health Sciences Research Committee, the South African Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Innovation and National Research Foundation of South Africa and the Division of Intramural Research.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.mdpi.com/journal/virusesen_US
dc.identifier.citationNkone, P.; Loubser, S.; Quinn, T.C.; Redd, A.D.; Laeyendecker, O.; Tiemessen, C.T.; Mayaphi, S.H. Evaluation of the HIV-1 Polymerase Gene Sequence Diversity for Prediction of Recent HIV-1 Infections Using Shannon Entropy Analysis. Viruses 2022, 14, 1587. https://DOI.org/10.3390/v14071587.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1999-4915
dc.identifier.other10.3390/v14071587
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/93027
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.rights© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.en_US
dc.subjectRecent HIV-1 infectionen_US
dc.subjectChronic HIV-1 infectionen_US
dc.subjectShannon entropyen_US
dc.subjectSequence diversityen_US
dc.subjectFalse recency rateen_US
dc.subjectHIV-1 polymeraseen_US
dc.subjectSanger sequencingen_US
dc.subjectHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)en_US
dc.subjectSDG-03: Good health and well-beingen_US
dc.titleEvaluation of the HIV-1 polymerase gene sequence diversity for prediction of recent HIV-1 infections using Shannon entropy analysisen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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