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Julia Roider1, Thomas Vollbrecht, Rika Draenert
1Department of infectious diseases, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der Universität München, Campus Innenstadt, Pettenkoferstraße 8a, 80336, Munich, Germany.
Defining the optimal epitope of a CD8 T cell response towards a certain antigen is a multistep procedure that requires the performance of peptide truncation design, ELISPOT peptide titration assays, and assessing the HLA class I restriction of the defined epitope via intracellular cytokine staining assays with B cell lines and epitope-specific CD8 T cell lines.
Defining the optimal epitope of a CD8 T cell response towards a certain antigen is a multistep procedure that requires the performance of peptide truncation design, ELISPOT peptide titration assays, and assessing the HLA class I restriction of the defined epitope via intracellular cytokine staining assays with B cell lines and epitope-specific CD8 T cell lines.
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