Figure 9.
Deletion of IDEs is not associated with global alteration in epitope-recognition patterns. At 6 months after HCT and infection with mCMV-Δ4IDE-rev, expressing IDEs (upper panels), or mCMV-Δ4IDE, lacking IDEs (lower panels), epitope-specific reconstitution of CD8+ T cells in the spleen was monitored and quantitated by cytofluorometric intracellular IFN-γ assays of cells responding to sensitization. (Left panels), mCMV genome-wide ORF library screening. (Right panels), screening with synthetic peptides corresponding to known epitopes. Arrows point to ORF library positions of epitopes deleted in mutant virus mCMV-Δ4IDE.