Hepatitis C virus has four chief genotypes HCVⅠ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ and Ⅳ,whose homology of amino acids and nucliec acids is less than 80% each other.The variation rates of HCV proteins are core 8%,E1 35%,E2/NS1 53%,NS3 27%,NS4 35%,NS5 39%,respectively. According to the characters of conservation, hydrophilicity, antigenicity and conformation,a series of highly conserved T cell and B cell epitopes are identified from the HCV expressed products,which might be benificial to the prevention and treatment of hepatitis C.In genenal, B epitope is about 12~40 peptides and T epitope 7~9 peptides.
HUANG Jian-Sheng, XIE Yong-Mei, REN Da-Ming. Genetic Variation and Conserved Epitopes of Hepatitis C Virus[J]. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics,1999,26(1):48-51
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