Research Article

Designing Peptide-Based HIV Vaccine for Chinese

Table 3

Using novel algorism to calculate the coverage of epitopes in a published T helper vaccine for Chinese population.

Amino acid sequenceProtein destination1HIV%2DR%3Specific coverage4

FRKYTAFTIPSINNEPol 30314%98%13%
EKVYLAWVPAHKGIGPol 7113%98%3%
GEIYKRWIILGLNKIGag 29420%87%18%
KRWIILGLNKIVRMYGag 29843%89%41%
GAVVIQDNSDIKVVPPol 98921%57%12%
YRKILRQRKIDRLIDVpu 312%89%2%
QKQITKIQNFRVYYRPol 95619%98%19%
SPAIFQSSMTKILEPPol 33511%93%11%
QHLLQLTVWGIKQLQEnv 72923%83%21%
AETFYVDGAANRETKPol 6197%41%2%
QGQMVHQAISPRTLNGag 1713%85%3%
WAGIKQEFGIPYNPQPol 8743%35%1%
KVYLAWVPAHKGIGGPol 7123%93%2%
KTAVQMAVFIHNFKRPol 91524%83%22%
EVNIVTDSQYALGIIPol 67424%57%16%
WEFVNTPPLVKLWYQPol 59622%91%22%
HSNWRAMASDFNLPPPol 75811%57%7%

Total specific coverage569%

The epitopes were selected from a published paper.
Data in columns 2–5 were calculated using the same method as in Table 2.