Citation Information

Mothe B, Llano A, Ibarrondo J, Daniels M, Miranda C, Zamarreño J, Bach V, Zuniga R, Pérez-Álvarez S, Berger CT, Puertas MC, Martinez-Picado J, Rolland M, Farfan M, Szinger JJ, Hildebrand WH, Yang OO, Sanchez-Merino V, Brumme CJ, Brumme ZL, Heckerman D, Allen TM, Mullins JI, Gómez G, Goulder PJ, Walker BD, Gatell JM, Clotet B, Korber BT, Sanchez J, Brander C (2011). Definition of the viral targets of protective HIV-1-specific T cell responses. Journal of translational medicine, 9, 208. (pubmed) (doi)

Abstract

The efficacy of the CTL component of a future HIV-1 vaccine will depend on the induction of responses with the most potent antiviral activity and broad HLA class I restriction. However, current HIV vaccine designs are largely based on viral sequence alignments only, not incorporating experimental data on T cell function and specificity.