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SUBMITTER: La Gruta NL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1348014 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
La Gruta Nicole L NL Kedzierska Katherine K Pang Ken K Webby Richard R Davenport Miles M Chen Weisan W Turner Stephen J SJ Doherty Peter C PC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060117 4
Immunodominance hierarchies are a substantial, but poorly understood, characteristic of CD8(+) T cell-mediated immunity. Factors influencing the differential responses to the influenza A virus nucleoprotein (NP(366-374)) and acid polymerase (PA(224-233)) peptides presented by H2D(b) have been analyzed by disabling (N5--> Q substitution) these peptides in their native configuration, then expressing them in the viral neuraminidase protein. This strategy of shifting epitopes within the same viral c ...[more]