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The sequence diversity of HIV-1 presents a challenge for the development of an effective HIV-1 vaccine, because such a vaccine must confer protection against diverse forms of the virus. The present studies were initiated to explore how vaccine-induced clonal populations of CD8(+) T lymphocytes of rhesus monkeys recognize variants of an HIV-1 envelope epitope sequence. Evaluating a subset of variants of a selected epitope peptide that retain their binding to the MHC class I molecule of rhesus monkeys that presents this epitope peptide, we show that vaccine-elicited CD8(+) T lymphocytes comparably recognize the wild-type and a number of variant epitope peptides as determined by tetramer binding assays. In fact, the same clonal populations of CD8(+) T lymphocytes recognize the wild-type and variant epitope peptides. However, functional assays show that many of these variant epitope peptides stimulate suboptimal cytokine production by the vaccine-elicited CD8(+) T lymphocytes. These findings suggest that vaccine-induced CD8(+) T lymphocyte populations may recognize diverse forms of a viral epitope, but may not function optimally to confer protection against viruses expressing many of those variant sequences.

Vaccine-Induced CD8+ T Lymphocytes of Rhesus Monkeys Recognize Variant Forms of an HIV Epitope but Do Not Mediate Optimal Functional Activity