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Modification of human papillomavirus‐like particle vaccine by insertion of the cross‐reactive L2‐epitopes
21 Mar 2008
Abstract excerpt
Infection with human papillomavirus 16 (HPV16), which is one of the 15 types of HPV causally associated with cervical cancer and accounts for 50% of the cases, can be prevented in a type-specific manner by an HPV16 virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine comprised of particles of the L1 protein alone. We attempted to modify the VLP vaccine by inserting the HPV16 L2-peptides including cross-neutralization epitopes into...
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