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The neutralizing epitope ELDKWA on HIV-1 gp41: genetic variability and antigenicity.
Immunology letters - 15 Oct 2005
Dong Xiao-Nan, Wu Yi, Chen Ying-Hua
Abstract excerpt
Viral evasion through mutations of neutralizing epitopes is a major challenge to AIDS vaccine development and clinical therapy. In this study, we analyzed the genetic variability of principal neutralizing epitope ELDKWA among 5393 HIV isolates in the HIV sequence database (). It has been found that six out of seven frequent variants were able to cause the invalidation of famous neutralizing MAb 2F5. Moreover,...
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