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Displaying record number 52670

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HXB2 Location	gp160(565-573) gp41(54-62) DNA(7917..7943)	gp160 Epitope Map
Author Location	Env(565-)
Epitope	`LLQLTVWGI`	Epitope Alignment
Epitope Name	Env565
Species (MHC/HLA)	human, transgenic mouse(A2)
Immunogen	HIV-1 infection, vaccine
Experimental methods	CD8 T-cell Elispot - IFNγ, Chromium-release assay, Flow cytometric T-cell cytokine assay
Keywords	binding affinity, subtype comparisons, computational epitope prediction

Vaccine Details

Vaccine type	peptide
Vaccine component	Env
Adjuvant	Incomplete Freund's Adjuvant (IFA)

Notes

HLA-A2-restricted HIV-1 CTL epitopes were computationally predicted. Binding affinities for HLA-A*0204, immunogenicity in HLA-A*0201 transgenic mice, and responses to the peptides in 17 HIV-1 infected patients were tested. 31 novel conserved A2 epitopes were detected. An average of 4 epitopes were recognized per patient.
This peptide was a good A2 binder, and induced CD8+ T-cell IFN gamma responses in mice. Responses to the peptide were not detected in 17 HIV+ HLA-A2 subjects.

References

Corbet2003 Sylvie Corbet, Henrik Vedel Nielsen, Lasse Vinner, Sanne Lauemoller, Dominic Therrien, Sheila Tang, Gitte Kronborg, Lars Mathiesen, Paul Chaplin, Søren Brunak, Søren Buus, and Anders Fomsgaard. Optimization and Immune Recognition of Multiple Novel Conserved HLA-A2, Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-Specific CTL Epitopes. J. Gen. Virol., 84(Pt 9):2409-2421, Sep 2003. PubMed ID: 12917462. Show all entries for this paper.

Displaying record number 55141

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HXB2 Location	gp160(565-573) gp41(54-62) DNA(7917..7943)	gp160 Epitope Map
Author Location	gp41(565-573)
Epitope	`LLQLTVWGI`	Epitope Alignment
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Species (MHC/HLA)	human(A2)
Immunogen
Experimental methods
Keywords	subtype comparisons, viral fitness and reversion

Notes

Determined the frequencies of known CD8+ and CD4+ Env epitope sequences among Brazilian HIV sequences of various subtypes.
Present in 26/50 Brazilian HIV sequences; a common variant is mLQLTVWGI in subtypes C and BF.

References

Queiroz2007 Artur Trancoso Lopo de Queiroz, Luciane Amorim Santos, Domingos Ramon Moreau, Tulio de Oliveira, David I. Watkins, Bernardo Galvão-Castro, and Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara. Identification and Characterization of Previously Described Epitopes in HIV-1 Subtypes B, C, F and BF in Brazil. Braz. J. Infect. Dis., 11(1):27-30, Feb 2007. PubMed ID: 17625722. Show all entries for this paper.

Displaying record number 55381

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HXB2 Location	gp160(565-573) gp41(54-62) DNA(7917..7943)	gp160 Epitope Map
Author Location
Epitope	`LLQLTVWGI`	Epitope Alignment
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Epitope Name	Env 565
Subtype	C
Species (MHC/HLA)	human(A2)
Immunogen	HIV-1 infection
Country	Denmark
Experimental methods	CD8 T-cell Elispot - IFNγ, Chromium-release assay, Flow cytometric T-cell cytokine assay, Intracellular cytokine staining
Keywords

Notes

11 HLA-A2+ (A*0201, A*0220, A*0234 or A*0236), patients' HIV were sequenced. Of 28 epitopes studied, most were conserved and elicited a subdominant CTL response. 9 epitopes in 7 proteins showed T-cell cross reaction. These epitopes were optimized to induce more immunogenic but cross-reacting responses.
Epitopes in Gag, Pol, Env, Nef were more conserved than epitopes in shorter proteins Vpu, Vif, Vpr and Rev. Most natural epitopes were untargeted or targeted by 1 or 2 patients.
Previously defined Env 565 LLQLTVWGI epitope was found in 6 patients but none had CTL immune responses to it.

References

Thorn2007 Mette Thorn, Sheila Tang, Dominic Therrien, Henrik Kløverpris, Lasse Vinner, Gitte Kronborg, Jan Gerstoft, Sylvie Corbet, and Anders Fomsgaard. Sequence Conservation of Subdominant HLA-A2-Binding CTL Epitopes in HIV-1 Clinical Isolates and CD8+ T-Lymphocyte Cross-Recognition May Explain the Immune Reaction in Infected Individuals. APMIS, 115(6):757-768, Jun 2007. PubMed ID: 17550385. Show all entries for this paper.

Displaying record number 1597

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HXB2 Location	gp160(565-573) gp41(54-62) DNA(7917..7943)	gp160 Epitope Map
Author Location	Env(731-739)
Epitope	`LLQLTVWGI`	Epitope Alignment
Species (MHC/HLA)	human(A2 supertype)
Immunogen	HIV-1 infection
Experimental methods
Keywords	supertype, rate of progression

Notes

Long-term nonprogressors (LTNPs) had strong memory resting CD8+ T-cell responses against the majority of epitopes tested, (18 for the A2 supertype, 16 for the A3 supertype) while the effector cells of long-term nonprogressors recognized far fewer epitopes.
Progressors had memory resting CD8+ T-cells that recognized far fewer epitopes than LTNPs.
A positive correlation between effector CD8+ T-cells and plasma viremia and a negative correlation between CD8+ effector T-cells and CD4+ T-cells was observed, which may contribute to the inability of LTNPs to clear virus.
This epitope can bind four of the five HLA-A2 supertypes alleles (A*0201, A*0202, A*0203, A*0206 and A*6802).

References

Propato2001 A. Propato, E. Schiaffella, E. Vicenzi, V. Francavilla, L. Baloni, M. Paroli, L. Finocchi, N. Tanigaki, S. Ghezzi, R. Ferrara, R. Chesnut, B. Livingston, A. Sette, R. Paganelli, F. Aiuti, G. Poli, and V. Barnaba. Spreading of HIV-specific CD8+ T-cell repertoire in long-term nonprogressors and its role in the control of viral load and disease activity. Hum. Immunol., 62(6):561-76, Jun 2001. PubMed ID: 11390031. Show all entries for this paper.

Displaying record number 56986

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HXB2 Location	gp160(565-573) gp41(54-62) DNA(7917..7943)	gp160 Epitope Map
Author Location	Env
Epitope	`LLQLTVWGI`	Epitope Alignment
Subtype	B
Species (MHC/HLA)	human
Immunogen	HIV-1 infection
Country	Sweden
Experimental methods	CD8 T-cell Elispot - IFNγ
Keywords	subtype comparisons, computational epitope prediction, vaccine antigen design

Notes

From HIV-1 sequences of multiple subtypes, bioinformatic prediction generated 174 CTL epitopes from Gag, Pol, Nef, Env and Tat restricted by HLA supertypes A1, A2, A3, A24, B7, B44 and B58; 10 previously-published A2- and B58-restricted epitopes were also included. Of these 184 epitopes, 113 were recognized experimentally in serum from 31 HIV+ patients.
While Gag, Pol, Env and Nef were highly immunogenic, only 38% of Tat epitopes elicited a response.
LLQLTVWGI was a predicted epitope restricted by A2 supertype. 2/31 patient(s) responded to it; one responding patient was known to carry an allele of A2 supertype. Responding patients were infected with HIV clade(s) B.

References

Perez2008 Carina L. Pérez, Mette V. Larsen, Rasmus Gustafsson, Melissa M. Norström, Ann Atlas, Douglas F. Nixon, Morten Nielsen, Ole Lund, and Annika C. Karlsson. Broadly Immunogenic HLA Class I Supertype-Restricted Elite CTL Epitopes Recognized in a Diverse Population Infected with Different HIV-1 Subtypes. J. Immunol., 180(7):5092-5100, 1 Apr 2008. PubMed ID: 18354235. Show all entries for this paper.