Table 3.

Synthetic peptides for screening T cell epitopes

Peptide number	Peptide	Synthetic peptide sequence
1	1–20	H-MAALTRDPQFQKLQQWYREH-OH
2	23–42	H-ELNLRRLFDANKDRFNHFSL-OH
3	37–56	H-FNHFSLTLNTNHGHILVDYS-OH
4	51–70	H-ILVDYSKNLVTEDVMRMLVD-OH
5	71–90	H-LAKSRGVEAARERMFNGEKI-OH
6	96–115	H-RAVLHVALRNRSNTPILVDG-OH
7	145–164	H-TGKTITDVINIGIGGSDLGP-OH
8	162–181	H-LGPLMVTEALKPYSSGGPRV-OH
9	168–187	H-TEALKPYSSGGPRVWYVSNI-OH
10	176–195	H-SGGPRVWYVSNIDGTHIAKT-OH
11	191–210	H-HIAKTLAQLNPESSLFIIAS-OH
12	200–219	H-NPESSLFIIASKTFTTQETI-OH
13	225–244	H-AKEWFLQAAKDPSAVAKHFV-OH
14	238–257	H-AVAKHFVALSTNTTKVKEFG-OH
15	247–266	H-STNTTKVKEFGIDPQNMFEF-OH
16	280–299	H-IGLSIALHVGFDNFEQLLSG-OH
17	313–332	H-EKNAPVLLALLGIWYINCFG-OH
18	327–346	H-YINCFGCETHAMLPYDQYLH-OH
19	386–405	H-NGQHAFYQLIHQGTKMIPCD-OH
20	400–419	H-KMIPCDFLIPVQTQHPIRKG-OH
21	420–439	H-LHHKILLANFLAQTEALMRG-OH
22	445–464	H-ARKELQAAGKSPEDLERLLP-OH
23	484–503	H-PFMLGALVAMYEHKIFVQGI-OH
24	533–552	H-AQVTSHDASTNGLINFIKQQ-OH
25	539–558	H-DASTNGLINFIKQQREARVQ-OH

Listed are 25 20-mer unpurified peptides in which each core sequence were centred around. Amino acid residues constituting the core sequence and those thought to bind anchors of I-A^q are underlined and shown in bold letters, respectively.