Characterization of near full-length genomes of HIV type 1 strains in Denmark: basis for a universal therapeutic vaccine.

Betina S Andresen, Lasse Vinner, Sheila Tang, Karoline Bragstad, Gitte Kronborg, Jan Gerstoft, Sylvie Corbet, Anders Fomsgaard

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Abstract

directly on DNA extracted from short-term cocultures of PBMCs. The near full-length genomes did not contain any major insertions, deletions, or rearrangements. Sixteen of the isolates were characterized as nonrecombinant subtype B and one isolate as nonrecombinant subtype C. Phylogenetic analysis did not reveal any founder effect among the sequences. Also, we investigated the presence of infrequently targeted subdominant HLA-A02-binding CTL epitopes. The epitopes were conserved in the Danish strains as well as globally in reference sequences of all subtypes. Thus, the selected epitopes were not subtype-specific or region-specific. This lends support for the concept of a universal immunotherapeutic vaccine construct based on these epitopes
Original languageEnglish
JournalAIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
Volume23
Issue number11
Pages (from-to)1442-8
Number of pages6
ISSN0889-2229
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007

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