Sequence diversity in the pe_pgrs genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is independent of human T cell recognition

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Copin, Richard ^a   Coscollá, Mireia ^b,c,d   Seiffert, Salome N ^b,c   Bothamley, Graham ^e   Sutherland, Jayne ^f   Mbayo, Georgetta ^f   Gagneux, Sebastien ^b,c   Ernst, Joel D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d Genomica and Salud   (Spain)

^e HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f Vaccinology Theme   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; EPITOPE; HLA ANTIGEN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLELE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOINFORMATICS; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDEL MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PE PGRS GENE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUBERCULOSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84903367776     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00960-13     Document Type: Article

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