Abstract: We have modified, by site-directed mutagenesis, several of those amino acid residues so that their equivalent substitutions in HIV-1
RT have led to the formation of HIV-1
RT variants with the highest degree of resistance to dideoxynucleoside triphosphates (i.e.,
Glu-89-->Gly, Leu-74-->Val, and Ser-215-->Tyr [which is comparable to the
Thr-215-->Tyr mutation of HIV-1
RT] and the double mutations
Glu-89-->Gly/
Ser-215-->Tyr and and
Leu-74-->Val/
Ser-215-->Tyr).