Mapping mutational effects along the evolutionary landscape of HIV envelope

  1. Hugh K Haddox
  2. Adam S Dingens
  3. Sarah K Hilton
  4. Julie Overbaugh
  5. Jesse D Bloom  Is a corresponding author
  1. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States

Abstract

The immediate evolutionary space accessible to HIV is largely determined by how single amino-acid mutations affect fitness. These mutational effects can shift as the virus evolves. However, the prevalence of such shifts in mutational effects remains unclear. Here we quantify the effects on viral growth of all amino-acid mutations to two HIV envelope (Env) proteins that differ at >100 residues. Most mutations similarly affect both Envs, but the amino-acid preferences of a minority of sites have clearly shifted. These shifted sites usually prefer a specific amino acid in one Env, but tolerate many amino acids in the other. Surprisingly, shifts are only slightly enriched at sites that have substituted between the Envs-and many occur at residues that do not even contact substitutions. Therefore, long-range epistasis can unpredictably shift Env's mutational tolerance during HIV evolution, although the amino-acid preferences of most sites are conserved between moderately diverged viral strains.

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  1. Hugh K Haddox

    Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States
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  2. Adam S Dingens

    Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States
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  3. Sarah K Hilton

    Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States
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  4. Julie Overbaugh

    Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States
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  5. Jesse D Bloom

    Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States
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Funding

National Institutes of Health (R01-AI127893)

  • Jesse D Bloom

National Science Foundation (DGE-1256082)

  • Adam S Dingens

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Faculty Scholar Grant)

  • Jesse D Bloom

Simons Foundation (Faculty Scholar Grant)

  • Jesse D Bloom

Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (OPP1111923)

  • Jesse D Bloom

National Institutes of Health (DP1-DA039543)

  • Julie Overbaugh

National Institutes of Health (T32GM007270)

  • Hugh K Haddox

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Arup K Chakraborty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Version history

  1. Received: December 17, 2017
  2. Accepted: March 15, 2018
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: March 28, 2018 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: April 20, 2018 (version 2)
  5. Version of Record updated: May 8, 2018 (version 3)

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© 2018, Haddox et al.

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  1. Hugh K Haddox
  2. Adam S Dingens
  3. Sarah K Hilton
  4. Julie Overbaugh
  5. Jesse D Bloom
(2018)
Mapping mutational effects along the evolutionary landscape of HIV envelope
eLife 7:e34420.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34420

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