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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 25.
Published in final edited form as: Virology. 2009 Feb 27;387(1):16–28. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.01.041

Table 2.

Nomenclature, molecular weight and amino acid sequence of synthetic minimal CTL and TH epitopes and epitope fusion peptides.

Compound Name * MW Sequence
Pan DR binding epitope (Alexander et al., PADRE 1.354 AK# XVAAWTLKAAA
PADRE:SIVGag181–189 fusion PADRE:CM9 2.419 AK# XVAAWTLKAAACTPYDINQM
PADRE:SIVGag149–157 fusion PADRE:LW9 2.393 AK# XVAAWTLKAAALSPRTLNAW
PADRE:SIVPol961–969 fusion PADRE:MI8 2.266 AK# XVAAWTLKAAAMTPAERLI
CpG-ODN #7909 (Hartmann et al., 2000) CpG-Human 7.900 5′ TCGTCGTTTTGTCGTTTTGTCGTT 3′

The sequences are shown for the components and final products that were used in the fusion peptide immunization. The sequence and names of the CTL epitopes can be found in Table 1. Details of fusion peptides and structure can be found in prior publications (Daftarian et al., 2005;La Rosa et al., 2002).

#

X=cyclohexyl-alanine.

*

MW= molecular weight confirmed by mass spectroscopy. Active CpG motif underlined.