Article
Construction of attenuated HIV-1 accessory gene immunization cassettes.
Vaccine - 1 Nov 1998
Ayyavoo V, Nagashunmugam T, Phung M T, Buckner C, Kudckodkar S, Le P, Reddy P J, Santiago L, Patel M, Tea L, Weiner D B
Abstract excerpt
Delivery of genetic expression cassettes into animals can effectively induce both humoral and cellular immunity to the expressed gene product. Previously, we used this strategy to immunize against HIV-1 structural and enzymatic proteins in mice, non-human primates and in humans. In contrast, the...
Topics
- AIDS Vaccines
- Animals
- Cell Line
- Cytokines
- Genes, Regulator
- Genes, Viral
- Genes, nef
- Genes, vif
- Genes, vpu
- Genetic Variation
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Mice
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic
- Vaccines, Attenuated
- Vaccines, DNA
