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 4

Correlation coefficient.

Correlation score	HIV-1 proteins
	gp160	Nef	p17	p24	RT
Epitope hit versus hydrophobicity	0.11	0.27	0.16	0.26	0.12
Epitope hit versus conservancy	0.097	0.21	0.19	0.23	0.047
Hydrophobicity versus conservancy	0.20	0.22	0.23	0.15	0.009