T cell-mediated immunity to malaria

SP Kurup, NS Butler, JT Harty - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Immunity to malaria has been linked to the availability and function of helper CD4+ T cells,
cytotoxic CD8+ T cells and γδ T cells that can respond to both the asymptomatic liver stage …

Epitope-based vaccines: an update on epitope identification, vaccine design and delivery

A Sette, J Fikes - Current opinion in immunology, 2003 - Elsevier
The basic premise of the epitope-based approach to vaccine development is that, in certain
cases, the responses induced by the natural immunogen are not optimal, and can be …

T cell and antibody kinetics delineate SARS-CoV-2 peptides mediating long-term immune responses in COVID-19 convalescent individuals

T Bilich, A Nelde, JS Heitmann, Y Maringer… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Long-term immunological memory to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) is crucial for the development of population-level immunity, which is the aim …

Predicting population coverage of T-cell epitope-based diagnostics and vaccines

HH Bui, J Sidney, K Dinh, S Southwood, MJ Newman… - BMC …, 2006 - Springer
Background T cells recognize a complex between a specific major histocompatibility
complex (MHC) molecule and a particular pathogen-derived epitope. A given epitope will …

Protection of Humans against Malaria by Immunization with Radiation-Attenuated Plasmodium falciparum Sporozoites

SL Hoffman, LML Goh, TC Luke… - The Journal of …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Abstract During 1989–1999, 11 volunteers were immunized by the bites of 1001–2927
irradiated mosquitoes harboring infectious sporozoites of Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) strain …

Development of an epitope conservancy analysis tool to facilitate the design of epitope-based diagnostics and vaccines

HH Bui, J Sidney, W Li, N Fusseder, A Sette - BMC bioinformatics, 2007 - Springer
Background In an epitope-based vaccine setting, the use of conserved epitopes would be
expected to provide broader protection across multiple strains, or even species, than …

A rational strategy to design multiepitope immunogens based on multiple Th lymphocyte epitopes

B Livingston, C Crimi, M Newman… - The Journal of …, 2002 - journals.aai.org
Abstract Four HLA-DR-restricted HIV-derived Th lymphocyte (HTL) epitopes cross-reactive
with the murine IA b class II molecule were used to evaluate different vaccine design …

Broad Specificity of Virus-Specific CD4+ T-Helper-Cell Responses in Resolved Hepatitis C Virus Infection

CL Day, GM Lauer, GK Robbins, B McGovern… - Journal of …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
Vigorous virus-specific CD4+ T-helper-cell responses are associated with successful control
of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and other human viral infections, but the breadth and specificity of …

An overview of in silico vaccine design against different pathogens and cancer

K Kardani, A Bolhassani, A Namvar - Expert Review of Vaccines, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Due to overcome the hardness of the vaccine design, computational
vaccinology is emerging widely. Prediction of T cell and B cell epitopes, antigen processing …

Rationale and plans for developing a non-replicating, metabolically active, radiation-attenuated Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite vaccine

TC Luke, SL Hoffman - Journal of experimental biology, 2003 - journals.biologists.com
Annually, malaria causes> 300 million clinical cases and 1 million deaths, is responsible for
the loss of> 1% of gross domestic product (GDP) in Africa and is a serious concern for …