Table 3.

Analysis of the identified epitope clusters in HIV-1 proteins.

HIV-1 protein	Total epitope number	Cluster number	Cluster amino acid position	Cluster length (amino acids)	Number of epitopes in cluster	% of clustered epitopes in total epitope pool
Gp160	45	1	31–69	39	9	40
		2	770–838	69	9
Nef	43	1	68–100	33	18	97
		2	105–145	41	24
p17	23	1	11–44	34	10	95
		2	72–101	30	12
p24	54	1	3–56	54	22	98
		2	61–117	57	9
		3	128–150	43	9
		4	161–184	24	13
RT	41	1	107–166	60	9	22