Potential role of doravirine for the treatment of HIV-1-infected persons with transmitted drug resistance

Rhee, Soo-Yon, Schapiro, Jonathan MM, Saladini, Francesco, Zazzi, Maurizio, Khoo, Saye ORCID: 0000-0002-2769-0967 and Shafer, Robert WW (2023) Potential role of doravirine for the treatment of HIV-1-infected persons with transmitted drug resistance. AIDS RESEARCH AND THERAPY, 20 (1). 8-.

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Abstract

<h4>Background</h4>Doravirine has a unique resistance profile but how this profile might increase its usefulness beyond first-line therapy in persons with susceptible viruses has not been well studied. We sought to determine scenarios in which doravirine would retain activity against isolates from ART-naïve persons with transmitted drug resistance (TDR) and to identify gaps in available doravirine susceptibility data.<h4>Methods</h4>We analyzed published in vitro doravirine susceptibility data and applied the results to 42,535 RT sequences from ART-naïve persons published between 2017 and 2021. NNRTI drug resistance mutations (DRMs) were defined as those with a Stanford HIV Drug Resistance Database doravirine penalty score either alone or in combination with other mutations.<h4>Results</h4>V106A, Y188L, F227C/L, M230L, and Y318F were associated with the greatest reductions in doravirine susceptibility. However, several NNRTI DRMs and DRM combinations lacking these canonical resistance mutations had > tenfold reduced susceptibility including G190E, one isolate with G190S, three isolates with L100I + K103N, one isolate with K103N + P225H, and isolates with L100I + K103N + V108I and K101E + Y181C + G190A. Of the 42,535 ART-naïve sequences, 3,374 (7.9%) contained a NNRTI DRM of which 2,788 (82.6%) contained 1 DRM (n = 33 distinct mutations), 426 (12.6%) contained 2 DRMs (79 distinct pairs of mutations), and 143 (4.2%) contained ≥ 3 DRMs (86 distinct mutation patterns). Among the 2,788 sequences with one DRM, 112 (4.0%) were associated with ≥ 3.0-fold reduced doravirine susceptibility while 2,625 (94.2%) were associated with < 3.0-fold reduced susceptibility. Data were not available for individual NNRTI DRMs in 51 sequences (1.8%). Among the 426 sequences with two NNRTI DRMs, 180 (42.3%) were associated with ≥ 3.0 fold reduced doravirine susceptibility while just 32 (7.5%) had < 3.0 fold reduced susceptibility. Data were not available for 214 (50.2%) sequences containing two NNRTI DRMs.<h4>Conclusions</h4>First-line therapy containing doravirine plus two NRTIs is expected to be effective in treating most persons with TDR as more than 80% of TDR sequences had a single NNRTI DRM and as more than 90% with a single DRM were expected to be susceptible to doravirine. However, caution is required for the use of doravirine in persons with more than one NNRTI DRM even if none of the DRMs are canonical doravirine-resistance mutations.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	HIV-1, Antiviral therapy, Drug resistance, Mutations, Doravirine, Non-nucleoside RT inhibitor
Divisions:	Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	22 Jun 2023 15:06
Last Modified:	16 Dec 2023 02:07
DOI:	10.1186/s12981-023-00503-5
Open Access URL:	https://aidsrestherapy.biomedcentral.com/articles/...
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3171220