Protective cellular immunity: Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses against dominant and recessive epitopes of influenza virus nucleoprotein induced by DNA immunization
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Fu, TM
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MERCK RES LABS,DEPT VIRUS & CELL BIOL,W POINT,PA 19486MERCK RES LABS,DEPT VIRUS & CELL BIOL,W POINT,PA 19486
Fu, TM
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Friedman, A
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Friedman, A
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Ulmer, JB
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Ulmer, JB
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Liu, MA
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Liu, MA
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Donnelly, JJ
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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.