Bases moleculares de la respuesta de las células T potentes y restringidas por HLA-C a un epítopo de nucleocáptido

Yoshihiko Goto1,2, You Min Ahn3,4, Mako Toyoda1

  • 1Division of Infection and immunity, Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, 8600811, Japan.

Nature communications
|August 28, 2025
PubMed
Resumen

Las respuestas de los linfocitos T citotóxicos (CTL, por sus siglas en inglés) dirigidas a los epítopos nucleocapsídicos conservados del SARS-CoV-2, como el KF9, controlan eficazmente las variantes virales. Estas células T ofrecen inmunidad duradera, crucial para el manejo de las variantes de preocupación de COVID-19.

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