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Natural variants of the immunodominant HLA A11-restricted CTL epitope of the EBV nuclear antigen-4 are nonimmunogenic due to intracellular dissociation from MHC class I:peptide complexes.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Dec 1997
Levitsky V, Zhang Q J, Levitskaya J, Kurilla M G, Masucci M G
Abstract excerpt
EBV isolates from human populations with a high frequency of HLA A11 evade recognition by CTLs specific for an immunodominant A11-restricted epitope derived from the EBV nuclear antigen 4 (EBNA-4). We have previously described four nonimmunogenic variants of this epitope carrying single amino acid substitutions in the anchor residues of the peptide. We have now investigated the antigenicity, A11 binding capacity,...
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