CD8+ T cells responding to the middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus nucleocapsid protein delivered by vaccinia virus MVA in mice

Viruses

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2018, Pages

  Veit, Svenja ^a   Jany, Sylvia ^a   Fux, Robert ^a   Sutter, Gerd ^a,b   Volz, Asisa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b German Centre for Cardio vascular Research Munich Heart Alliance   (Germany)

Author keywords

MERS CoV; MERS CoV nucleocapsid protein; Murine CD8+ T cell epitope; MVA vaccine

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; MODIFIED VACCINIA VIRUS ANKARA 5T4 VACCINE; MODIFIED VACCINIA VIRUS ANKARA MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS N PROTEIN VACCINE; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS SPIKE PROTEIN; EPITOPE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; VACCINATION; VACCINIA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VACCINATION; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 85058759282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v10120718     Document Type: Article

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