Table 2. Plasmids used for immunization studies.

Description	Antigenic sequence
pT.neo*	MKLQYIKANSKFIGITELEF
pT.TK1	MKLQYIKANSKFIGITELEFIYNFINQAWRHAGDPAK
pT.TK2	MKLQYIKANSKFIGITELEFDCHPQGDRFCSQPDPAK
pT.TK3	MKLQYIKANSKFIGITELEFDCHPQGGRVCFHPDPAK
pT.TK4	MKLQYIKANSKFIGITELEFGCVHNICFADPAK
pmIFN-γ**	Murine IFN-γ

*pT.neo is a previously described plasmid espression vector [26] used for insertion of the selected peptide sequences (plasmids pT.TK1–4),

**pmIFN-γ is a previously described plasmid encoding for murine interferon-γ [27] used for co-immunization studies.

Letters in bold indicate the antigenic peptides selected from phage displayed libraries