Article
Impact of sequence variation in a dominant HLA-A*02-restricted epitope in hepatitis C virus on priming and cross-reactivity of CD8+ T cells.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 2014
Ziegler Susanne, Skibbe Kathrin, Walker Andreas, Ke Xiaoyu, Heinemann Falko M, Heinold Andreas, Mok Juk Yee, van Esch Wim J E, Yang Dongliang, Wölfl Matthias, Timm Jörg
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: CD8+ T cells are an essential component of successful adaptive immune responses against hepatitis C virus (HCV). A major obstacle to vaccine design against HCV is its inherent viral sequence diversity. Here, we test the hypothesis that different sequence variants of an immunodominant CD8+ T cell epitope, all binding with high affinity to HLA class I, target different T cell receptor repertoires and...
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