Gallimore, Awen Myfanwy  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6675-7004, Dumrese, T., Hengartner, H., Zinkernagel, R. M. and Rammensee, H. G.
1998.
Protective immunity does not correlate with the hierarchy of virus-specific cytotoxic T cell responses to naturally processed peptides.
Journal of Experimental Medicine
187
(10)
, pp. 1647-1657.
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Abstract
Infection of C57BL/6 mice with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) stimulates major histocompatibility complex class I-restricted cytotoxic T cells (CTLs), which normally resolve the infection. Three peptide epitopes derived from LCMV have been shown to bind the mouse class I molecule H-2 Db and to stimulate CTL responses in LCMV-infected mice. This report describes the identity and abundance of each CTL epitope after their elution from LCMV-infected cells. Based on this information, peptide abundance was found to correlate with the magnitude of each CTL response generated after infection with LCMV. Subsequent experiments, performed to determine the antiviral capacity of each CTL specificity, indicate that the quantitative hierarchy of CTL activity does not correlate with the ability to protect against LCMV infection. This report, therefore, indicates that immunodominant epitopes should be defined, not only by the strength of the CTL response that they stimulate, but also by the ability of the CTLs to protect against infection.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Medicine Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIURI) |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Publisher: | Rockefeller University Press |
| ISSN: | 0022-1007 |
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| Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2022 10:20 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/69761 |
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