Review Article

Characterization of the Protective HIV-1 CTL Epitopes and the Corresponding HLA Class I Alleles: A Step towards Designing CTL Based HIV-1 Vaccine

Table 3

Analysis of the identified epitope clusters in HIV-1 proteins.

HIV-1 proteinTotal epitope number Cluster numberCluster amino acid positionCluster length (amino acids)Number of epitopes in cluster% of clustered epitopes in total epitope pool

Gp160 45131–69399 40
2770–838699

Nef 43168–1003318 97
2105–1454124

p17 23111–443410 95
272–1013012

p24 5413–565422 98
261–117579
3128–150439
4161–1842413

RT411107–16660922