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. 2021 Feb 11;17(8):2748–2761. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2021.1875763

Table 1.

L2 RG1 epitope sequences compared between HPV types. The amino acid sequences at positions 20–31 of L2 capsid for HPV16/18/39/6 were analyzed by BLOSUM62 comparison matrix for alignment

HPV type RG1 20–31 a.a. sequence % identity to HPV16 Score to HPV16
HPV16 KTCKQAGTCPPD n/a n/a
HPV18 KTCKQSGTCPPD 91.70% 70
HPV39 RTCKQSGTCPPD 83.30% 67
HPV6 QTCKLTGTCPPD 75.00% 58