我国河南、陕西两省献血感染者HIV-1B亚型毒株gag基因变异研究

Genetic Variation of Gag Gene in HIV-1 Subtype B Infections from Henan and Shanxi Provinces of China

从河南和陕西既往献血感染的109份HIV-1阳性血浆样本中提取病毒RNA,扩增并测定其gag全长基因序列。按照采样时间对序列进行分组并利用Entropy软件分析不同组别的氨基酸序列差异。结果表明,2004年、2005年的序列与2002年的序列比较,分别存在8个和13个氨基酸组成有统计学意义的位点,其中有5个位点在两组比较中同时出现。存在差异的16个氨基酸位点中,10个位点的氨基酸分布呈现多态性增加的趋势,其中8个位点被我国人群主要HLA递呈的CTL表位覆盖;6个位点的氨基酸分布呈现多态性减少的趋势,这些位点均位于Gag蛋白重要的功能区内。

The 109 whole blood samples were collected from HIV-1 infected former blood donors in Henan and Shanxi. The RNA templates were extracted from plasma and used for the full gag gene amplification and sequencing. The sequences were divided into 3 groups according to sampling year. The Entropy software was used to identify the amino acids with composition difference among different groups of amino acid sequences. The results showed that there existed 8 and 13 amino acid sites with the statistical significance difference, respectively, in sequences in year 2004 and 2005, compared to those in 2002. Among them, there existed 5 amino acid sites in two groups. Of 16 amino acid sites, the increasing polymorphism and the decreasing polymorphism along the sampling year were observed in 10 and 6 amino acid sites respectively. Of 10 sites with increased polymorphism, 8 sites were located in the CTL epitopes recognized and presented by the main HLA alleles existed in Chinese population. The 6 sites with decreasing polymorphism all existed in main domains of Gag proteins.