Single Genome Sequencing of Expressed and Proviral HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein 120 () and Genes.

The current study provides detailed protocols utilized to amplify the complete HIV-1 and genes from single copies of expressed or integrated HIV present in fresh-frozen autopsy tissues of patients who died while on combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) with no detectable plasma viral load (pVL) at death ( Lamers , 2016a and 2016b; Rose , 2016 ). This method optimizes protocols from previous publications ( Palmer , 2005 ; Norström , 2012 ; Lamers , 2015 ; 2016a and 2016b; Rife , 2016 ) to produce single distinct PCR products that can be directly sequenced and includes several cost-saving and time-efficient modifications.