Fifteen to twenty percent of HIV substitution mutations are associated with recombination
Schlub, Timothy E., Grimm, Andrew J., Smyth, Redmond P., Cromer, Deborah, Chopra, Abha, Mallal, Simon, Venturi, Vanessa, Waugh, Caryll, Mak, Johnson and Davenport, Miles P. 2014, Fifteen to twenty percent of HIV substitution mutations are associated with recombination, Journal of virology, vol. 88, no. 7, pp. 3837-3849, doi: 10.1128/JVI.03136-13.
HIV undergoes high rates of mutation and recombination during reverse transcription, but it is not known whether these events occur independently or are linked mechanistically. Here we used a system of silent marker mutations in HIV and a single round of infection in primary T lymphocytes combined with a high-throughput sequencing and mathematical modeling approach to directly estimate the viral recombination and mutation rates. From >7 million nucleotides (nt) of sequences from HIV infection, we observed 4,801 recombination events and 859 substitution mutations (≈1.51 and 0.12 events per 1,000 nt, respectively). We used experimental controls to account for PCR-induced and transfection-induced recombination and sequencing error. We found that the single-cycle virus-induced mutation rate is 4.6 × 10(-5) mutations per nt after correction. By sorting of our data into recombined and nonrecombined sequences, we found a significantly higher mutation rate in recombined regions (P = 0.003 by Fisher's exact test). We used a permutation approach to eliminate a number of potential confounding factors and confirm that mutation occurs around the site of recombination and is not simply colocated in the genome. By comparing mutation rates in recombined and nonrecombined regions, we found that recombination-associated mutations account for 15 to 20% of all mutations occurring during reverse transcription.
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