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 protein | Total epitope number | Cluster number | Cluster amino acid position | Cluster length (amino acids) | Number of epitopes in cluster | % of clustered epitopes in total epitope pool |
| Gp160 |
45 | 1 | 31–69 | 39 | 9 |
40 | 2 | 770–838 | 69 | 9 |
| Nef |
43 | 1 | 68–100 | 33 | 18 |
97 | 2 | 105–145 | 41 | 24 |
| p17 |
23 | 1 | 11–44 | 34 | 10 |
95 | 2 | 72–101 | 30 | 12 |
| p24 |
54 | 1 | 3–56 | 54 | 22 |
98 | 2 | 61–117 | 57 | 9 | 3 | 128–150 | 43 | 9 | 4 | 161–184 | 24 | 13 |
| RT | 41 | 1 | 107–166 | 60 | 9 | 22 |
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