CD4+ T cell epitope affinity to MHC II influences the magnitude of CTL responses elicited by DNA epitope vaccines

Vaccine

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 2639-2646

  Vatakis, Dimitrios N ^a,b   Koh, Yi Ting ^a   McMillan, Minnie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CD4+ T cell epitope; Cytotoxic T lymphocyte; Minigene

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; EPITOPE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 15044341263     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2004.10.039     Document Type: Article

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