PMID- 9268170 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19970909 LR - 20171116 IS - 0042-6822 (Print) IS - 0042-6822 (Linking) VI - 234 IP - 2 DP - 1997 Aug 4 TI - Recognition of dengue virus NS1-NS2a proteins by human CD4+ cytotoxic T lymphocyte clones. PG - 383-6 AB - We examined nine dengue virus-specific human CD4+ CD8- cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) clones for protein recognition, using recombinant vaccinia viruses which contain genes coding for dengue virus proteins. These clones were established from peripheral blood mononuclear cells of a donor previously immunized with a live-attenuated experimental dengue-1 vaccine. Of nine CD4+ T cell clones, seven were dengue-1-specific and two were dengue-1-dengue-3 cross-reactive. Four dengue-1-specific clones and one dengue-1-dengue-3 cross-reactive clone recognized epitopes within the NS1 or NS2a proteins. Analysis of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) restriction revealed that three dengue-1-specific clones are HLA-DR1-restricted and one dengue-1-dengue-3 cross-reactive clone is HLA-DPw3-restricted. These results indicate that NS1 and NS2a proteins as well as C, E, and NS3 proteins reported earlier contain one or more epitopes recognized by dengue virus-specific human CD4+ T lymphocytes. FAU - Green, S AU - Green S AD - Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester 01655, USA. FAU - Kurane, I AU - Kurane I FAU - Pincus, S AU - Pincus S FAU - Paoletti, E AU - Paoletti E FAU - Ennis, F A AU - Ennis FA LA - eng GR - NIH-R01-AI 30624/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - T32-AI 07272/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Virology JT - Virology JID - 0110674 RN - 0 (Antigens, Viral) RN - 0 (CD4 Antigens) RN - 0 (Viral Nonstructural Proteins) SB - IM MH - Antigens, Viral/immunology MH - CD4 Antigens MH - CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/*immunology MH - Clone Cells MH - *Cytotoxicity, Immunologic MH - Dengue/*immunology MH - Dengue Virus/*immunology MH - Humans MH - Viral Nonstructural Proteins/*immunology EDAT- 1997/08/04 00:00 MHDA- 1997/08/04 00:01 CRDT- 1997/08/04 00:00 PHST- 1997/08/04 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1997/08/04 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1997/08/04 00:00 [entrez] AID - S0042-6822(97)98648-7 [pii] AID - 10.1006/viro.1997.8648 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Virology. 1997 Aug 4;234(2):383-6. doi: 10.1006/viro.1997.8648.