An overview of used E-protein derived peptides and their characteristics.

Amino acid sequences of the E-protein derived peptides used in this study, their expression level in E. coli, and the presence of predicted MHC class I or class II epitopes in the different domains of the E-protein compared to known human T-cell epitopes. The sequence of the peptides can be found in Chabierski et al. [24].Abbreviations. E: WNV envelope protein, M: WNV membrane protein, NS: WNV non-structural protein ++: very high expression, +: high expression, +/−: moderate expression and –: very low expression.An overview of used E-protein derived peptides and their characteristics.