| Literature DB >> 9268170 |
S Green1, I Kurane, S Pincus, E Paoletti, F A Ennis.
Abstract
We examined nine dengue virus-specific human CD4+ CD8- cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) clones for protein recognition, using recombinant vaccinia viruses which contain genes coding for dengue virus proteins. These clones were established from peripheral blood mononuclear cells of a donor previously immunized with a live-attenuated experimental dengue-1 vaccine. Of nine CD4+ T cell clones, seven were dengue-1-specific and two were dengue-1-dengue-3 cross-reactive. Four dengue-1-specific clones and one dengue-1-dengue-3 cross-reactive clone recognized epitopes within the NS1 or NS2a proteins. Analysis of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) restriction revealed that three dengue-1-specific clones are HLA-DR1-restricted and one dengue-1-dengue-3 cross-reactive clone is HLA-DPw3-restricted. These results indicate that NS1 and NS2a proteins as well as C, E, and NS3 proteins reported earlier contain one or more epitopes recognized by dengue virus-specific human CD4+ T lymphocytes.Entities:
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Year: 1997 PMID: 9268170 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8648
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Virology ISSN: 0042-6822 Impact factor: 3.616