Table 2.

Fp9/Fp9–3, Fp14/Fp14–3, and their counterpart aa sequences and CMI responses

^aPeptide pools are not hyphenated (e.g., Fp9) while the individual large peptides have a hyphen followed by a number (e.g. Fp9–3) indicating the number of the overlapping individual peptide starting from amino-end.

^bAlignments denote identical amino acids (aa) as (*), aa with most similarity based on charge, polarity, acid/base, and hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity as (:), those with some similarity as (.), and each gap with a (-). The internal gaps are due to best alignment and the external gaps are due the length of the selected peptide or peptide pool. The percentage of aa sequence similarity and identity was determined from these alignment criteria.

^cNote that Sp14 pool is a single 13mer peptide Sp14–1 (TDAAVKNWMTQTL). As a result, Sp14–1c, the counterpart SIV Sp14–1 peptide for HIV Hp15–1 peptide, is a 10mer and did not include the first 3 aa (AEQ). Whereas Sp14–1b is a 10 mer with glutamine (Q) added to amino-end and threonine (T) deleted from the carboxyl-end rather than a sequence of Sp14–1c.