Abstract: Here, we used a T-cell-tropic SIV/HIV recombinant virus in which the
capsid and
vif regions of HIV-1 were replaced with their SIV counterparts (simian-tropic HIV-1 [stHIV-1](SCA,SVIF)) to study the impact of a number of drug resistance substitutions in the
integrase coding region at positions
E92Q,
G118R,
E138K,
Y143R,
S153Y,
N155H, and
R263K on drug resistance, viral infectivity, and viral replication capacity.