Summary of immune epitope data for HCV.

The data represent all antibody and T cell epitopes reported for all HCV genotypes in all hosts. MHC binding data has been excluded. Non-peptidic epitopes and MHC ligand elution structures have not been described for HCV to date. ‘References’ denotes the number of individual peer-reviewed papers reporting HCV epitope data. ‘Total structures’ include positive and negative peptides. ‘Epitopes’ represents all positive structures. Clustering was performed using default 80% sequence homology of positive epitopes using IEDB Search interface. Note: total numbers for individual T cell and antibody responses may be more than the number of total reported epitopes because many structures are reported as both T and antibody.