title: Polytope vaccines for the codelivery of multiple CD8 T-cell epitopes.
abstract: Vaccines against a number of diseases, including HIV, Epstein Barr virus, malaria and several cancers, are believed to require the coinduction of multiple alphabeta CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses that are directed towards a number of different target antigens. The difficulties associated with making large recombinant vaccines that contain numerous antigens has led to the development of alphabeta CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocyte polyepitope or polytope vaccine approach, where multiple (usually 8-10 amino acids long) alphabeta CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitopes, derived from several antigens are conjoined into single artificial constructs. Such polytope constructs can be delivered using a number of different vaccine vector modalities with each epitope in the construct emerging as individually immunogenic.
authors.affiliation: Cooperative Research Center for Vaccine Technology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, University of Queensland, Australia. andreasS@qimr.edu.au
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Suhrbier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016827:CD8 Antigens / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology*; D018984:Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D018995:Myosin Heavy Chains / Q000276:immunology; D014612:Vaccines / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D016827:CD8 Antigens; D018984:Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte; D014612:Vaccines; D018995:Myosin Heavy Chains