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Viruses selectively mutate their CD8+ T-cell epitopes--a large-scale immunomic analysis.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 15 Jun 2009
Vider-Shalit Tal, Sarid Ronit, Maman Kobi, Tsaban Lea, Levi Ran, Louzoun Yoram
Abstract excerpt
MOTIVATION: Viruses employ various means to evade immune detection. One common evasion strategy is the removal of CD8+cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitopes. We here use a combination of multiple bioinformatic tools and large amount of genomic data to compute the epitope repertoire presented by over 1300 viruses in many HLA alleles. We define the 'Size of Immune Repertoire score', which represents the ratio between the...
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