Abstract: In therapy-naive individuals, hypermutated proviral DNA with
M184I and
M230I mutations due to the editing of hA3G, had stop codons in the open reading frames and the same mutations were absent in the plasma virus.
Abstract: It is unlikely that viral variants, which exhibit hypermutated sequences and
M184I and/or
M230I, will mature and expand in vivo.
Result: The three hypermutated proviral sequences from the therapy naive patients who had
M184I and
M230I drug resistance mutations and mutation in drug resistance position (
M41I) also had stop codons in the
RT ORF particularly at the tryptophan residue, which is the target site for hA3G.