title: Fewer protective cytotoxic T-cell epitopes than T-helper-cell epitopes on vesicular stomatitis virus.
abstract: Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) and T-helper-cell responses in various mouse strains were monitored. Protective CTL responsiveness against three proteins of vesicular stomatitis virus was H-2 linked and inducible only in half of the 15 combinations tested (each of five H-2 haplotypes combined with each of three viral proteins), whereas biologically relevant T-helper-cell responses were inducible in all. This suggests that vesicular stomatitis virus exhibits more T-helper-cell than CTL epitopes.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Kündig
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Castelmur
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Bachmann
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Abraham
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Binder
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hengartner
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Zinkernagel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000276:immunology; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000276:immunology*; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D015704:CD4 Antigens / Q000276:immunology; D016827:CD8 Antigens / Q000276:immunology; D002213:Capsid / Q000276:immunology; D000939:Epitopes / Q000276:immunology*; D006183:H-2 Antigens; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology; D006377:T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer / Q000276:immunology; D014721:Vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus / Q000276:immunology*; D014758:Viral Core Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D000956:Antigens, Viral; D015704:CD4 Antigens; D016827:CD8 Antigens; D000939:Epitopes; C028391:G protein, vesicular stomatitis virus; D006183:H-2 Antigens; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D014758:Viral Core Proteins; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins