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 language | English |
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Journal | AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 11 |
Pages (from-to) | 1442-8 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISSN | 0889-2229 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |