Smith Stephen M
Saint Michael's Medical Center and The New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07102, USA.
Retrovirology. 2004 May 12;1:8. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-1-8.
Recent data have established the HIV-1 and SIV escape CTL through epitope mutation. However, three novel studies prove that such escape comes at a "cost" to overall viral fitness. Understanding how HIV-1/SIV escape CTL and the impact of the escape mutations has tremendous importance in developing CTL based vaccines. Further, a CTL based HIV-1 vaccine is likely to have long-term protective effect against disease only if the escape virus is significantly weakened compared with wild type.
近期数据表明,HIV-1和SIV可通过表位突变逃避细胞毒性T淋巴细胞(CTL)。然而,三项新研究证明,这种逃逸是以整体病毒适应性为“代价”的。了解HIV-1/SIV如何逃避CTL以及逃逸突变的影响,对于开发基于CTL的疫苗极为重要。此外,只有当逃逸病毒与野生型相比显著减弱时,基于CTL的HIV-1疫苗才可能对疾病产生长期保护作用。