Cytotoxic T lymphocyte response to a wild type hepatitis B virus epitope in patients chronically infected by variant viruses carrying substitutions within the epitope

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 933-943

  Bertoletti, Antonio ^a   Costanzo, Antonio ^b   Chisari, Francis V ^c   Levrero, Massimo ^b   Artini, Marco ^b   Sette, Alessandro ^d   Penna, Amalia ^a   Giuberti, Tiziana ^a   Fiaccadori, Franco ^a   Ferrari, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d CYTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CAPSID PROTEIN; EPITOPE; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HLA A2 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PEPTIDE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; VIRUS DNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; VIRUS GENOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHRONIC DISEASE; EPITOPES; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HLA-A2 ANTIGEN; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0028086591     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.180.3.933     Document Type: Article

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