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SUBMITTER: Yang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5489306 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Yang Yi Y Zhu Qing Q Sun Weilai W Guo Jingjing J Ning Xiuzhe X Li Qiao Q Guo Yan Y Li Junfeng J Kou Zhihua Z Zhou Yusen Y
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics 20170216 6
The effective protective HIV vaccine should elicit either protective antibodies or effective T cell response, or both. To improve the efficacy of HIV-1 vaccines, HLA polymorphism and HIV-1 diversity are 2 key factors to be considered for vaccine development. In this study, we expressed a recombinant multi-epitope protein MEP1 which has the same amino acid sequence as a DNA vaccine for Chinese population in our previous report. We found that MEP1 alone could elicit moderate levels of humoral and ...[more]