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A proportion of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) responding to infection by influenza recognize target cells that express the viral nucleoprotein. Recent work showed that CTL can recognize short overlapping regions of large nucleoprotein fragments expressed in transfected L cells. This led to the suggestion that CTL recognize segmental epitopes of denatured or degraded proteins in a similar way to helper T cells. One corollary of this idea is that CTL should recognize appropriate short peptides on the target cell surface. We demonstrate that the epitopes of nucleoprotein recognized by CTL in association with class I molecules of the major histocompatibility complex in both mouse and man can be defined with short synthetic peptides derived from the nucleoprotein sequence.

Type

Journal article

Journal

Cell

Publication Date

28/03/1986

Volume

44

Pages

959 - 968

Keywords

Alleles, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Cell Division, Cytotoxicity, Immunologic, Epitopes, Humans, Major Histocompatibility Complex, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Nucleoproteins, Orthomyxoviridae, Peptides, T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic, Viral Proteins