Optimization of codon usage of plasmid DNA vaccine is required for the effective MHC class I-restricted T cell responses against an intracellular bacterium

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 5594-5599

  Uchijima, Masato ^a   Yoshida, Atsushi ^a   Nagata, Toshi ^a   Koide, Yukio ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; DNA VACCINE; EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON; LISTERIOLYSIN; LUCIFERASE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MESSENGER RNA; PLASMID DNA; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUSION; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX RESTRICTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CODON; CYTOKINES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; VACCINES, DNA;

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