A vaccine encoding conserved promiscuous HIV CD4 epitopes induces broad T cell responses in mice transgenic to multiple common HLA class II molecules

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Ribeiro, Susan Pereira ^a,b   Rosa, Daniela Santoro ^a,b   Fonseca, Simone Gonçalves ^a   Mairena, Eliane Conti ^a,b   Postól, Edilberto ^a,b   Oliveira, Sergio Costa ^c   Guilherme, Luiza ^a,b   Kalil, Jorge ^a,b   Cunha Neto, Edecio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Institute for Investigation in Immunology INCT   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA DQ6 ANTIGEN; HLA DQ8 ANTIGEN; HLA DR2 ANTIGEN; HLA DR4 ANTIGEN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EPITOPE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNOGENICITY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

AIDS VACCINES; ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; EPITOPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HIV-1; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC;

EID: 77956217622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011072     Document Type: Article

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