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. 2015 Sep 16;53(10):3226–3233. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01385-15

TABLE 4.

Low-level variants of BKV HLA-A2-restricted peptide sequencesa detected in clinical samples of pediatric kidney and hematopoietic cell transplant recipients

Antigen position Peptide sequence Mutation No. of patients Variant frequency (%)b
VP1 antigen
    BKV VP1 p62 NLRGFSLKL F66L 1 1.87
    BKV VP1 p84 KMLPCYSTA L86P 1 1.87
    BKV VP1 p108 LLMWEAVTV E112G 1 2.38
    BKV VP1 p128 NLHAGSQKV L129F 1 1.72
Q134P 1 4.49
K135Q 1 5.34
    BKV VP1 p245 LLDEQGVGPL L254F 1 1.67
    BKV VP1 p259 SLYVSAADI L260P 1 3.62
Large T antigen
    BKV T p157 TLACFAVYT V163A 1 3.03
    BKV T p176 KLMEKYSVT M178I 3 2.26; 2.30; 3.53
E179G 2 2.25; 2.27
K180N 5 1.92; 2.34; 2.34; 2.49; 3.27
    BKV T p199 FLTPHRHRV H203R 1 1.96
    BKV T p216 KLCTFSFLI K216R 1 1.88
C218R 1 1.79
T219A 1 1.93
T219N 1 2.39
F220L 1 4.03
S221R 1 3.31
S221C 1 3.3
S221N 1 3.18
I224F 2 2.00; 2.37
    BKV T p313 PYHFKYHEKHFANAT K321E 1 2.04
T327N 1 1.97
    BKV T p362 MLTERFNHIL T364A 1 1.94
F367S 2 1.98; 3.22
    BKV T p395 WLHCLLPKM H397R 1 2.07
    BKV T p398 CLLPKMDSV S405F 1 4.02
    BKV T p406 VIFDFLHCI D409E 3 1.44; 1.65; 2.21
D409G 2 1.56; 2.61
D409Y 2 1.55; 2.74
    BKV T p410 FLHCIVFNV L411S 1 4.03
    BKV T p558 SLQNSEFLL N561T 1 2.1
S562P 1 3.36
    BKV T p570 ILQSGMTLL I570F 2 2.05; 2.19
Small T antigen
    BKV T p4 VLNREESME R7G 1 1.8
    BKV T p10 SMELMDLLGL E12V 1 9.28
    BKV T p125 FLRKEPLVWI R127G 2 1.51; 1.86
K128R 1 1.85
a

Low-level variants of BKV HLA-B0702- and HLA-B08-restricted peptide sequences were not identified.

b

Variants that appeared in multiple specimens for a patient were averaged. Frequencies for each patient are listed.