PMID: 9557648Apr 29, 1998Paper

Structured-tree topology and adaptive evolution of the simian immunodeficiency virus SIVsm envelope during serial passage in rhesus macaques according to likelihood mapping and quartet puzzling

Journal of Virology
P J Valli, J Goudsmit

Abstract

Species-specific strains of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) are nonpathogenic in African primates. The SIV strain most closely related to human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) is SIVsm, the strain specific to the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys). Infection of Asian primates with SIV causes AIDS and allows the study of the adaptive evolution of a lentivirus to replicate efficiently in a new host, providing a useful animal model of HIV infection and AIDS in humans. Serial passage of SIVsm from sooty mangabeys in rhesus macaques drastically shortened the time of disease progression from 1.5 years to 1 month as the retrovirus adapted to these Asian hosts. In the present study we analyzed the quasispecies nature of the SIVsm envelope gene (env) during serial population passage in rhesus macaques. We asked ourselves if phylogenetic evidence could be provided for the structured topology of the SIVsm env tree and subsequently for the adaptive evolution of SIVsm env. Likelihood mapping showed that phylogenetic reconstruction of the passage was possible because a high percentage of the sequence data had a "tree-like" form. Subsequently, quartet puzzling was used and produced a phylogeny with a structure parallel to the known in...Continue Reading

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