Further genetic and functional research will be required to elucidate the fitness landscapes integrating viral pressures, expansion of the A3 repertoire and concomitant risks for the own genetic information.
When these interactions modify the host in a way that has lasting effects on viral selection pressure, niche construction will be in operation.
Genetic variation within the HIV-1 genome naturally occurs because of the low fidelity of reverse transcriptase, coupled with the selective pressures brought about within the host such as HAART, recreational drug use, immunological pressures, viral recombinatory events, host cell phenotype, and rates of virus production [ 19, 20].
Due to faster mutation rates, short generation times, and more intense selective pressures, viral genomes may be genetically distant from the known reference genomes.
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Therefore, understanding the involvement of host factors in virus infection may facilitate the discovery of potential drug candidates because host factors undergo much less mutagenic pressure than viral proteins and may have a universal function during different virus infections.
Finally, in both acute and chronic HIV-1 infections, the emergence of CTL escape mutants highlights the role of immunological pressure on viral replication [7], [16] [17].
Therefore treatment response might be influenced by TDR even after many years, resulting in ongoing viral replication under selective pressure and promoting the evolution of further resistant variants [42].
To identify amino acid replacements most likely involved in the adaptive response of the viral quasispecies to selection pressure, V1-V3 ancesequencesuences involved in the major bottlenecks from patient S2 and S4 were inferred (Figure 4).
These pre-existing substitutions altered selection pressure and viral evolution in the East German cohort.
