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7844535
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All samples were amplified by semi-nested RT-PCR and the nucleotide sequence determined for four regions within the E1, E2/NS1, NS4 and NS5 genes.
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9794426
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We used the DNA-based immunization approach in BALB/c mice to determine whether the HCV nonstructural proteins NS3, NS4, and NS5 will induce Ab responses, CD4+ Th cell proliferation, and cytokine release in response to stimulation by recombinant proteins as well as generate CD8+ CTL activity both in vitro and in vivo.
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9794426
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Indeed, a tumor model was established following inoculation of syngenic SP2/0 cells stably transfected with NS5.
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10195625
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Enhanced cellular immunity to hepatitis C virus nonstructural proteins by codelivery of granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor gene in intramuscular DNA immunization.
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10195625
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In this report, we have constructed a plasmid, pTV-NS345, that encodes the HCV NS3, NS4 and NS5 proteins (NS345) and a bicistronic plasmid, PTV-NS345/GMCSF, in which the HCV NS345 polyprotein and GMCSF are translated independently.
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10498664
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Overlapping 20-mer peptides covering the entire core and NS4 antigens and a panel of peptides representing highly conserved regions of core, NS3, NS4, and NS5 were used.
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10498664
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By direct peripheral blood T-cell stimulation and by fine-specificity analysis of HCV-specific T-cell lines and clones, highly immunogenic T-cell epitopes were identified within core, NS3, and NS4.
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10498664
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Overlapping 20-mer peptides covering the entire core and NS4 antigens and a panel of peptides representing highly conserved regions of core, NS3, NS4, and NS5 were used.
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10498664
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By direct peripheral blood T-cell stimulation and by fine-specificity analysis of HCV-specific T-cell lines and clones, highly immunogenic T-cell epitopes were identified within core, NS3, and NS4.
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10614142
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HCV Core, NS3 and NS4 proteins are the most immunogenic antigens for B cells and HLA class II-restricted CD4+ T cells.
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10614142
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For its part, liver-infiltrating CD8+ CTL recognize epitopes within the Core, E1, E2/NS1 and NS2 proteins in a HLA class I restricted manner.
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10614142
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CTL responses to HCV Core, NS3, NS4 and NS5 have been detected in peripheral blood of patients chronically infected with HCV.
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10614142
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HCV Core, NS3 and NS4 proteins are the most immunogenic antigens for B cells and HLA class II-restricted CD4+ T cells.
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10614142
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For its part, liver-infiltrating CD8+ CTL recognize epitopes within the Core, E1, E2/NS1 and NS2 proteins in a HLA class I restricted manner.
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10614142
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CTL responses to HCV Core, NS3, NS4 and NS5 have been detected in peripheral blood of patients chronically infected with HCV.
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12438584
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The 37 defined epitopes were predominantly distributed among the HCV proteins core, NS3, NS4, and NS5.
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16148104
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Of 22 subjects who spontaneously controlled HCV viremia, all recognized at least one of a group of six epitopes situated within the nonstructural (NS) proteins NS3, NS4, and NS5, each of which was detected by >30% of subjects, but most subjects recognized additional, more heterogeneous specificities.
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16160170
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Minimal T-cell-stimulatory sequences and spectrum of HLA restriction of immunodominant CD4+ T-cell epitopes within hepatitis C virus NS3 and NS4 proteins.
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16481078
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To develop a vaccine against hepatitis C virus, we synthesized four long peptides from nonstructural proteins NS3, NS4 and NS5B containing HLA-class I and class II epitopes mainly inducing responses in natural infection.
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16481078
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HLA-A2.1/HLA-DR1 transgenic mice immunized with one peptide, containing a class II epitope implicated in viral resolution, developed IFNgamma-producing CD4+-T and CD8+-T cells.
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17240490
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Adoptive transfer of NS3/4A mRNA-transfected DCs resulted in migration to regional lymph nodes, strong cellular immune responses and protection from challenge with vaccinia virus expressing NS3/NS4/NS5 in mice.
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17455808
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The structure and function of particular viral structural (core, E1, E2) and nonstructural (NS2, NS3, NS4, NS5) proteins and noncoding regions known to date are described.
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18158729
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Monocyte-derived DCs from healthy donors were infected with the recombinant adenovirus (Ad) harboring HCV NS3 (AdNS3), NS4 (NS4A and NS4B; AdNS4), NS5 (NS5A and NS5B; AdNS5), NS3/NS4 (AdNS3/NS4), and NS4/NS5 (AdNS4/NS5) genes, and then used to stimulate autologous lymphocytes in vitro.
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18158729
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Antigen-specific cellular immune responses were detected by interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), interleukin 4 (IL-4), and Granzyme B (GrB) enzyme-linked immunospot assays (ELISPOT).
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18158729
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DCs transduced with NS3/NS4 or NS4/NS5 had similar ability to elicit specific immune responses to HCV.
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18158729
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Monocyte-derived DCs from healthy donors were infected with the recombinant adenovirus (Ad) harboring HCV NS3 (AdNS3), NS4 (NS4A and NS4B; AdNS4), NS5 (NS5A and NS5B; AdNS5), NS3/NS4 (AdNS3/NS4), and NS4/NS5 (AdNS4/NS5) genes, and then used to stimulate autologous lymphocytes in vitro.
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18158729
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Antigen-specific cellular immune responses were detected by interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), interleukin 4 (IL-4), and Granzyme B (GrB) enzyme-linked immunospot assays (ELISPOT).
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18158729
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DCs transduced with NS3/NS4 or NS4/NS5 had similar ability to elicit specific immune responses to HCV.
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18423948
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Multiepitope-based vaccines against hepatitis C virus (HCV) were designed in the form of three minigenes encompassing four domains of the NS3, NS4 and NS5B proteins that contain multiple class I/II restricted epitopes.
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19751699
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In an attempt to increase the antigenicity of linear peptide sequences, chimeric multiple antigenic peptides (MAPs) containing epitopes from E2, NS4, and NS5 GBV-C proteins have been synthesized.
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20053820
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A global vaccine based on conserved proteins across genotypes may be feasible, as a five-antigen mosaic cocktail provided 90, 77 and 70% coverage of the Core, NS3 and NS4 proteins, respectively; protein coverage diminished with increased protein variability, dropping to 38% for NS2.
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20427624
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Generation and characterization of chimeric antibodies against NS3, NS4, NS5, and core antigens of hepatitis C virus.
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20427624
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Mouse-human chimeric antibodies (cAbs) against hepatitis C virus (HCV) core, NS3 (nonstructural), NS4, and NS5 antigens were developed as quality control (QC) reagents to replace the use of human sera/plasma for Abbott HCV immunoassays.
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20427624
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Mouse heavy-chain (V(H)) and light-chain (V(L)) variable regions of anti-HCV core, NS3, NS4, and NS5 antigens were PCR amplified from hybridoma lines and then cloned with human IgG1 heavy-chain (C(H)) and light-chain (C(L)) constant regions, respectively.
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20427624
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Generation and characterization of chimeric antibodies against NS3, NS4, NS5, and core antigens of hepatitis C virus.
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20427624
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Mouse-human chimeric antibodies (cAbs) against hepatitis C virus (HCV) core, NS3 (nonstructural), NS4, and NS5 antigens were developed as quality control (QC) reagents to replace the use of human sera/plasma for Abbott HCV immunoassays.
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20427624
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Mouse heavy-chain (V(H)) and light-chain (V(L)) variable regions of anti-HCV core, NS3, NS4, and NS5 antigens were PCR amplified from hybridoma lines and then cloned with human IgG1 heavy-chain (C(H)) and light-chain (C(L)) constant regions, respectively.
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20427624
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Generation and characterization of chimeric antibodies against NS3, NS4, NS5, and core antigens of hepatitis C virus.
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20427624
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Mouse-human chimeric antibodies (cAbs) against hepatitis C virus (HCV) core, NS3 (nonstructural), NS4, and NS5 antigens were developed as quality control (QC) reagents to replace the use of human sera/plasma for Abbott HCV immunoassays.
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20427624
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Mouse heavy-chain (V(H)) and light-chain (V(L)) variable regions of anti-HCV core, NS3, NS4, and NS5 antigens were PCR amplified from hybridoma lines and then cloned with human IgG1 heavy-chain (C(H)) and light-chain (C(L)) constant regions, respectively.
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21346054
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By using the recombinant HCV antigens NS3, NS4, NS5, and Combined, we describe a new bead-based multiplex test capable of detecting HCV infection in human serum samples.
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21346054
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When assayed in the singleplex format, the NS3, NS4, and NS5 antigens presented lower sensitivity values (50.5%, 51.6%, and 55.9%, respectively) than did the Combined antigen, which presented a sensitivity of 93.5%.
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21346054
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By using the recombinant HCV antigens NS3, NS4, NS5, and Combined, we describe a new bead-based multiplex test capable of detecting HCV infection in human serum samples.
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21346054
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When assayed in the singleplex format, the NS3, NS4, and NS5 antigens presented lower sensitivity values (50.5%, 51.6%, and 55.9%, respectively) than did the Combined antigen, which presented a sensitivity of 93.5%.
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22285887
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BTV is a non-enveloped double-capsid virus, which encodes 7 structural proteins (VP1-VP7) and several non-structural proteins (NS1, NS2, NS3/3a and NS4) from ten double-stranded RNA segments of the genome.
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22285887
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We compared the protective efficacy of VLPs and CLPs in sheep and investigated the importance of geographical lineages of BTV in the development of vaccines.
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22285887
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The Greek crossbred Karagouniko sheep, which display mild to sub-clinical BT, were vaccinated with VLPs or CLPs of BTV-1, derived from western lineage and were challenged with virulent BTV-1 from an eastern lineage.
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23467778
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Ninety-two percent and 32% of IgG anti-HCV core-positive cryoprecipitates had additional specificities against the NS3 and NS4 regions, respectively.
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23785766
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The humoral immune response was assessed with ELISA; cellular immune response--in blast transformation reaction, by quantitation of CD4+ and CD8+ T cell proliferation using flow cytofluorometry, by intracellular synthesis and secretion of IFN-gamma and IL-2 in ELISpot and ELISA.
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23785766
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It was found that the functionally active T cell response was achieved to antigens presenting NS3, NS4, NS5A, and NS5B epitopes of different HCV genotypes in response to pcNS3-NS5B plasmid and was stronger than that to plasmids carrying individual genes.
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23785766
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A high proliferation rate of CD4+ T cells, secretion of IL-2 and IFN-gamma, induction of anti-NS3 and anti-NS5B IgG2a were demonstrated.
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25378645
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We assessed a heterologous prime-boost vaccination strategy based on a replicative defective simian adenoviral vector (ChAd3) and modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) vector encoding the NS3, NS4, NS5A, and NS5B proteins of HCV genotype 1b.
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25378645
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We show that HCV-specific T cells induced by ChAd3 are optimally boosted with MVA, and generate very high levels of both CD8(+) and CD4(+) HCV-specific T cells targeting multiple HCV antigens.
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