Abstract: BACKGROUND: This work evaluates the role of subtype F human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)
protease (
PR) substitutions
L89M and
L90M in viral replication and resistance to
PR inhibitors (
PIs).
Abstract: CONCLUSION: The
L89M mutation in subtype F viruses is a high genetic barrier to the accumulation of the
L90M resistance mutation and can function as a resistance mutation, depending on the presence of other polymorphisms in the subtype F
PR backbone.
Abstract: RESULTS: The subtype F clone (89
M90L) showed a replicative capacity comparable to that of the
PI-susceptible subtype B clone (89<