Journal
JOURNAL OF VIROLOGICAL METHODS
Volume 189, Issue 1, Pages 53-57Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2013.01.004
Keywords
HIV; Integration; Alu; Quantitative PCR; LEDGF/p75; Taqman
Funding
- NIH [A1052845, P01-A109093501, AI082020]
- University of Pennsylvania Center for AIDS Research
- Penn Genome Frontiers Institute with a grant with the Pennsylvania Department of Health
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In many studies of HIV replication, it is useful to quantify the number of HIV proviruses in cells against a background of unintegrated forms of the HIV DNA. A popular method for doing so involves quantitative PCR using one primer complementary to the HIV long terminal repeat (LTR), and a second primer complementary to a cellular Alu repeat, so that PCR product only forms from templates where a provirus is integrated in the human genome near an Alu repeat. However, several recent studies have identified conditions that alter distributions of HIV integration sites relative to genes. Because Alu repeats are enriched in gene rich regions, this raises the question of whether altered integration site distributions might confound provirus abundance measurements using the Alu-PCR method. Here modified versions of the HIV tethering protein LEDGF/p75 were used to retarget HIV integration outside of transcription units, and show that this has a negligible effect on Alu-PCR quantitation of proviral abundance. Thus altered integration targeting, at least to the degree achieved here, is not a major concern when using the Alu-PCR assay. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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