This program project application brings together a strong multidisciplinary team to study key issues in the virology and immunology of HIV transmission, early pathogenesis, and superinfection during early HIV. The Clinical Core will provide a central resource for the proposed projects by recruiting and following persons with acute and early HIV. A unique resource will be enrollment of potential source partners who transmitted HIV. The Clinical Core will be based on an acute/early HIV program that has a strong track record of recruiting persons with acute/early HIV as well as identifying their source partners. In addition to recruitment in the San Francisco area, a second Clinical Core site in southern Brazil will provide additional acute/early infection cases and transmission pairs in an area with a nearly 50/50 mix of subtype B and C HIV, allowing comparisons between HIV subtypes. Four closely integrated studies are planned: Project 1 (Hecht PI) will examine the transmission of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) escape and drug resistance mutations and their persistence after transmission. It will test the hypotheses that there are not substantial barriers to transmission of drug resistant and CTL escape variants present in source partners, and that differences in viral fitness will predict time to emergence of wild type virus in persons with primary drug resistance or CTL escape mutations. Project 2 (Deeks PI) will examine the role of HIV env properties, in particular co-receptor utilization, during transmission from source to spread partner and evolution following transmission. It will test the role of CCR5 related viral properties, such as receptor binding avidity, in viral transmissibility. It will also investigate the relationship between host CCR5 receptor and ligand genetics and evolution of viral coreceptor properties following HIV transmission. Project 3 (Grant PI) will prospectively follow participants over the first years following HIV infection to better determine the risk of superinfection by time since infection and virologic and humoral immune predictors of susceptibility to superinfection. Project 4 (Nixon PI) will examine the role of HIV specific T-cell responses in driving reversion of CTL escape mutations acquired during HIV transmission to a partner with a different HLA type and the role of CTL responses in superinfection. The Administrative and Analysis Core will provide scientific leadership and data management and statistical support. The overarching aims of this proposal are to advance our understanding of the immunologic and virologic factors that reduce the vulnerability of individuals to superinfection in the first 2-3 years of infection, and to better understand the evolution of HIV as it adapts to a new host environment following transmission. This will provide critical insights into the development of protective immunity following HIV infection, and into the evolution and pathogenesis of HIV in early infection.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
3P01AI071713-03S1
Application #
8043728
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZAI1-ELB-A (J1))
Program Officer
Embry, Alan C
Project Start
2007-09-01
Project End
2012-08-31
Budget Start
2010-05-05
Budget End
2010-08-31
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
2010
Total Cost
$395,622
Indirect Cost
Name
University of California San Francisco
Department
Internal Medicine/Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
094878337
City
San Francisco
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
94143
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