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Emergence of new influenza A viruses which carry an escape mutation of the HLA-B27-restricted CTL epitope of NP in Japan.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2000
Kashiwagi T, Hamada N, Iwahashi J, Hara K, Ueda T, Noguchi H, Toyoda T
Abstract excerpt
Influenza A viruses (H3N2) isolated in 1998 in Nagasaki, Japan, carried a mutation (384R --> G) in one of the anchor amino acids of the HLA-B27-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) epitope of NP (383-391). Phylogenetic analysis revealed that these viruses have been isolated only in Japan to date and belong to the unique lineages.
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