Table 3.

B-Cell Epitopes with Their Antigenicity Score for HCV E1 Protein.

Rank	Sequence	Start position	Score	Antigenicity score
1	VYEADDVILHTPGCIP	21	0.89	−0.1321
2	AFTIRPRRHQTVQTCN	98	0.87	0.9016
2	CSLYPGHLTGHRMAWD	114	0.87	0.4645
3	GVLAGLAYYSMQGNWA	162	0.86	0.9162
3	VGMIVAHVLRLPQTLF	138	0.86	−0.2034
4	CWTPVTPTVAVRYVGA	46	0.84	0.9042
5	TGHRMAWDMMMNWSPA	122	0.83	0.7591
5	GHLTGHRMAWDMMMNW	119	0.83	0.3814
6	TASIRKHVDLLVGAAT	63	0.82	0.4985
6	AGLAYYSMQGNWAKVV	165	0.82	0.5682
6	HWGVLAGLAYYSMQGN	160	0.82	0.7804
6	LFDIIAGAHWGVLAGL	152	0.82	0.9319
7	NGSESTCWTPVTPTVA	40	0.81	0.9424

Epitopes in bold are potent B-cell epitopes.