| Literature DB >> 9060624 |
T M Fu1, A Friedman, J B Ulmer, M A Liu, J J Donnelly.
Abstract
DNA immunization offers a novel means to induce cellular immunity in a population with a heterogeneous genetic background. An immunorecessive cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) epitope in influenza virus nucleoprotein (NP), residues 218 to 226, was identified when mice were immunized with a plasmid DNA encoding a full-length mutant NP in which the anchor residues for the immunodominant NP147-155 epitope were altered. Mice immunized with wild-type or mutant NP DNA were protected from lethal cross-strain virus challenge, and the protection could be adoptively transferred by immune splenocytes, indicating the role of cell-mediated immunity in the protection. DNA immunization is capable of eliciting protective cellular immunity against both immunodominant and immunorecessive CTL epitopes in the hierarchy seen with virus infection.Entities:
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Year: 1997 PMID: 9060624 PMCID: PMC191393
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103