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Antigenic heterogeneity of the hepatitis C virus NS4 protein as modeled with synthetic peptides.
Virology - 25 Apr 1999
Chang J C, Seidel C, Ofenloch B, Jue D L, Fields H A, Khudyakov Y E
Abstract excerpt
The effect of sequence heterogeneity on the immunologic properties of two strong antigenic regions of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS4 protein was studied by using a set of 443 overlapping 20-mer synthetic peptides. One antigenic region comprising the cleavage site between NS4a and NS4b (region 5-1-1) was modeled with peptides derived from 73 different known sequences, representing HCV genotypes 1-6. The other...
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